Job 19:22

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Why are you cruel to me, like God, for ever saying evil against me?

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 69:26 : 26 Because they are cruel to him against whom your hand is turned; they make bitter the grief of him who is wounded by you.
  • Isa 51:23 : 23 And I will put it into the hand of your cruel masters, and of those whose yoke has been hard on you; who have said to your soul, Down on your face! so that we may go over you: and you have given your backs like the earth, even like the street, for them to go over.
  • Mic 3:3 : 3 Like meat they take the flesh of my people for their food, skinning them and crushing their bones, yes, cutting them up as if for the pot, like flesh inside the cooking-pot.
  • Job 2:5 : 5 But now, if you only put your hand on his bone and his flesh, he will certainly be cursing you to your face.
  • Job 10:16 : 16 And that if there was cause for pride, you would go after me like a lion; and again put out your wonders against me:
  • Job 13:25 : 25 Will you be hard on a leaf in flight before the wind? will you make a dry stem go more quickly on its way?
  • Job 16:11 : 11 God gives me over to the power of sinners, sending me violently into the hands of evil-doers.
  • Job 16:13-14 : 13 His bowmen come round about me; their arrows go through my body without mercy; my life is drained out on the earth. 14 I am broken with wound after wound; he comes rushing on me like a man of war.
  • Job 31:31 : 31 If the men of my tent did not say, Who has not had full measure of his meat?

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    26And ... without my flesh I will see God;

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  • Job 19:20-21
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    20My bones are joined to my skin, and I have got away with my flesh in my teeth.

    21Have pity on me, have pity on me, O my friends! for the hand of God is on me.

  • Ps 22:1
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  • Job 19:23
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    23If only my words might be recorded! if they might be put in writing in a book!

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    2How long will you make my life bitter, crushing me with words?

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  • Ps 22:15-17
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    15My throat is dry like a broken vessel; my tongue is fixed to the roof of my mouth, and the dust of death is on my lips.

    16Dogs have come round me: I am shut in by the band of evil-doers; they made wounds in my hands and feet.

    17I am able to see all my bones; their looks are fixed on me:

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    2You are the God of my strength; why have you put me from you? why do I go in sorrow because of the attacks of my haters?

  • Job 7:19-20
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    19How long will it be before your eyes are turned away from me, so that I may have a minute's breathing-space?

    20If I have done wrong, what have I done to you, O keeper of men? why have you made me a mark for your blows, so that I am a weariness to myself?

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    26Because they are cruel to him against whom your hand is turned; they make bitter the grief of him who is wounded by you.

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    24Why is your face veiled from me, as if I was numbered among your haters?

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    4My flesh and my skin have been used up by him and my bones broken.

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    21You have become cruel to me; the strength of your hand is hard on me.

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    11Saying, God has given him up; go after him and take him, for he has no helper.

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    21Give ear to the voice of my grief; I have no comforter; all my haters have news of my troubles, they are glad because you have done it: let the day of fate come when they will be like me.

    22Let all their evil-doing come before you; do to them as you have done to me for all my sins: for loud is the sound of my grief, and the strength of my heart is gone.

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    9I will say to God my Rock, Why have you let me go from your memory? why do I go in sorrow because of the attacks of my haters?

    10The cruel words of my haters are like a crushing of my bones; when they say to me every day, Where is your God?

  • Job 31:31
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    31If the men of my tent did not say, Who has not had full measure of his meat?

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  • Jer 15:15
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    3Why do we seem as beasts in your eyes, and as completely without knowledge?

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    14I will take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand.

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    11By him my ways have been turned on one side and I have been pulled in bits; he has made me waste.

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    2I will say to God, Do not put me down as a sinner; make clear to me what you have against me.