Job 19:22

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Ps 69:26 : 26 For they persecute the one whom you have struck, and they talk to the grief of those whom you have wounded.
  • Isa 51:23 : 23 But I will put it into the hand of those who afflict you; who have said to your soul, 'Bow down, that we may go over:' and you have laid your body like the ground, and like the street, for those who went over.'
  • Mic 3:3 : 3 Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, like meat for the pot, and like flesh within the cauldron.
  • Job 2:5 : 5 But put forth your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse you to your face.
  • Job 10:16 : 16 For it increases. You hunt me as a fierce lion; and again You show Yourself marvelous upon me.
  • Job 13:25 : 25 Will you break a leaf driven to and fro, and will you pursue dry stubble?
  • Job 16:11 : 11 God has delivered me to the ungodly and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.
  • Job 16:13-14 : 13 His archers surround me, he cleaves my entrails asunder and does not spare; he pours out my gall upon the ground. 14 He breaks me with breach upon breach; he runs upon me like a giant.
  • Job 31:31 : 31 If the men of my tent have not said, 'Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied.'

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  • Job 19:26-28
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    26And though after my skin, worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh I shall see God,

    27Whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not another. How my heart yearns within me!

    28But you should say, 'Why do we persecute him, since the root of the matter is found in me?'

  • Job 19:20-21
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    20My bone clings to my skin and to my flesh, and I have escaped with the skin of my teeth.

    21Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O you my friends, for the hand of God has touched me.

  • 1My God, my God, why have You forsaken me? Why are You so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?

  • 23Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were printed in a book!

  • Job 19:2-3
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    2How long will you vex my soul and break me in pieces with words?

    3These ten times you have reproached me; you are not ashamed that you make yourselves strange to me.

  • Ps 22:15-17
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    15My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue clings to my jaws; You have brought me into the dust of death.

    16For dogs have surrounded me; the assembly of the wicked have enclosed me; they pierced my hands and my feet.

    17I can count all my bones; they look and stare at me.

  • 2For you are the God of my strength; why do you cast me off? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

  • Job 7:19-20
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    19How long will you not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow my spittle?

    20I have sinned; what shall I do unto you, O preserver of men? Why have you set me as a mark against you, so that I am a burden to myself?

  • 26For they persecute the one whom you have struck, and they talk to the grief of those whom you have wounded.

  • 24Why do you hide your face, and hold me as your enemy?

  • 4My flesh and my skin He has made old; He has broken my bones.

  • 21You have become cruel to me: with Your strong hand You oppose Yourself against me.

  • 11Saying, God has forsaken him; pursue and take him, for there is none to deliver him.

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    21They have heard that I sigh: there is none to comfort me: all my enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that you have done it: you will bring the day that you have promised, and they shall be like me.

    22Let all their wickedness come before you; and do unto them, as you have done unto me for all my transgressions: for my sighs are many, and my heart is faint.

  • Ps 42:9-10
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    9I will say to God my rock, Why have You forgotten me? why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

    10As with a sword in my bones, my enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where is your God?

  • 31If the men of my tent have not said, 'Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied.'

  • 84How many are the days of Your servant? When will You execute judgment on those who persecute me?

  • 2For your arrows pierce deeply into me, and your hand presses me hard.

  • 15O LORD, you know: remember me, and visit me, and avenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in your longsuffering: know that for your sake I have suffered rebuke.

  • 10Remove your stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of your hand.

  • 9Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand and cut me off!

  • 7And I fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to me, Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?

  • 4As for me, is my complaint to a man? And if it were, why should my spirit not be troubled?

  • 19But do not be far from me, O LORD; O my strength, hurry to help me.

  • Job 16:8-10
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    8You have filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me, and my leanness rising up in me bears witness to my face.

    9He tears me in his wrath, who hates me; he gnashes upon me with his teeth; my enemy sharpens his eyes upon me.

    10They gape upon me with their mouth; they strike me on the cheek reproachfully; they gather themselves together against me.

  • 13From above he has sent fire into my bones, and it prevails against them: he has spread a net for my feet, he has turned me back: he has made me desolate and faint all the day.

  • 13His archers surround me, he cleaves my entrails asunder and does not spare; he pours out my gall upon the ground.

  • 3Why are we counted as beasts, and considered vile in your sight?

  • 14Why do I take my flesh in my teeth and put my life in my hand?

  • 3My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually say to me, Where is your God?

  • 3For the enemy has persecuted my soul; he has crushed my life to the ground; he has made me dwell in darkness, like those long dead.

  • 5Because of the voice of my groaning, my bones cling to my skin.

  • 18He will not allow me to regain my breath, but fills me with bitterness.

  • 43You have covered Yourself with anger and pursued us; You have slain and not pitied.

  • 19Consider my enemies, for they are many, and they hate me with cruel hatred.

  • 3Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked; for they cast iniquity upon me, and in wrath they hate me.

  • 18And he said, "Why does my lord pursue after his servant? What have I done? Or what evil is in my hand?

  • 11He has turned aside my ways and torn me to pieces; He has made me desolate.

  • 2I will say to God, Do not condemn me; show me why You contend with me.