Job 19:22

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

‫לָ֭מָּה תִּרְדְּפֻ֣נִי כְמוֹ־אֵ֑ל וּ֝מִבְּשָׂרִ֗י לֹ֣א תִשְׂבָּֽעוּ׃‬

Transliteration

lāmmāh tirdəpūnî kəmô-ʾēl ū-mibbəśārî lō tiśbāʿū

Grammar Details

*lāmmāh*: interrogative + preposition - why
*tirdəpūnî*: qal imperfect, 2nd masculine plural + 1st person singular suffix - you pursue me
*kəmô-ʾēl*: preposition + noun common masculine singular - like God
*ū-mibbəśārî*: waw conjunction + preposition + noun common masculine singular construct + 1st person singular suffix - and with my flesh
*lō*: negative particle - not
*tiśbāʿū*: qal imperfect, 2nd masculine plural - you are satisfied

Word Meanings

*rādap*: to pursue/chase/persecute
*ʾēl*: God/deity/mighty one
*bāśār*: flesh/body/meat
*śābaʿ*: to be satisfied/sated/filled

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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Ps 69:26 : 26 For they persecute{H8804)} him whom thou hast smitten{H8689)}; and they talk{H8762)} to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded.
Isa 51:23 : 23 But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee; which have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over: and thou hast laid thy body as the ground, and as the street, to them that went over.
Mic 3:3 : 3 Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.
Job 2:5 : 5 But put forth thine hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face.
Job 10:16 : 16 For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me.
Job 13:25 : 25 Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?
Job 16:11 : 11 God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.
Job 16:13-14 : 13 His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground. 14 He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.
Job 31:31 : 31 If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied.

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