Job 19:22

World English Bible (2000)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 69:26 : 26 For they persecute him whom you have wounded. They tell of the sorrow of those whom you have hurt.
  • Isa 51:23 : 23 and I will put it into the hand of those who afflict you, who have said to your soul, 'Bow down, that we may walk over you;' and you have laid your back as the ground, and as the street, to those who walk over."
  • Mic 3:3 : 3 who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them, and 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 your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will renounce you to your face."
  • Job 10:16 : 16 If my head is held high, you hunt me like a lion. Again you show yourself powerful to me.
  • Job 13:25 : 25 Will you harass a driven leaf? Will you pursue the dry stubble?
  • Job 16:11 : 11 God delivers me to the ungodly, and casts me into the hands of the wicked.
  • Job 16:13-14 : 13 His archers surround me. He splits my kidneys apart, and does not spare. He pours out my gall on the ground. 14 He breaks me with breach on breach. He runs on me like a giant.
  • Job 31:31 : 31 if the men of my tent have not said, 'Who can find one who has not been filled with his meat?'

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    26 After my skin is destroyed, then in my flesh shall I see God,

    27 Whom I, even I, shall see on my side. My eyes shall see, and not as a stranger. "My heart is consumed within me.

    28 If you say, 'How we will persecute him!' because the root of the matter is found in me,

  • Job 19:20-21
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    20 My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh. I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.

    21 "Have pity on me, have pity on me, you my friends; for the hand of God has touched me.

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

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

  • Job 19:2-3
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    2 "How long will you torment me, and crush me with words?

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  • Ps 22:15-17
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    15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd. My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You have brought me into the dust of death.

    16 For dogs have surrounded me. A company of evildoers have enclosed me. They have pierced my hands and feet.

    17 I can count all of my bones. They look and stare at me.

  • 2 For you are the God of my strength. Why have you rejected me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

  • Job 7:19-20
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    19 How long will you not look away from me, nor leave me alone until I swallow down my spittle?

    20 If I have sinned, what do I do to you, you watcher of men? Why have you set me as a mark for you, so that I am a burden to myself?

  • 26 For they persecute him whom you have wounded. They tell of the sorrow of those whom you have hurt.

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

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

  • 21 You have turned to be cruel to me. With the might of your hand you persecute me.

  • 11 saying, "God has forsaken him. Pursue and take him, for no one will rescue him."

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    21 They 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 proclaimed, and they shall be like me.

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

  • Ps 42:9-10
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    9 I will ask God, my rock, "Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?"

    10 As with a sword in my bones, my adversaries reproach me, while they continually ask me, "Where is your God?"

  • 31 if the men of my tent have not said, 'Who can find one who has not been filled with his meat?'

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

  • 2 For your arrows have pierced me, your hand presses hard on me.

  • 15 Yahweh, you know; remember me, and visit me, and avenge me of my persecutors; don't take me away in your longsuffering: know that for your sake I have suffered reproach.

  • 10 Remove your scourge away from me. I am overcome by the blow of your hand.

  • 9 even that it would please God to crush me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!

  • 7 I fell to the ground, and heard a voice saying to me, 'Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?'

  • 4 As for me, is my complaint to man? Why shouldn't I be impatient?

  • 19 But don't be far off, Yahweh. You are my help: hurry to help me.

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    8 You have shriveled me up. This is a witness against me. My leanness rises up against me. It testifies to my face.

    9 He has torn me in his wrath, and persecuted me. He has gnashed on me with his teeth. My adversary sharpens his eyes on me.

    10 They have gaped on me with their mouth. They have struck me on the cheek reproachfully. They gather themselves together against me.

  • 13 From on high has he 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.

  • 13 His archers surround me. He splits my kidneys apart, and does not spare. He pours out my gall on the ground.

  • 3 Why are we counted as animals, which have become unclean in your sight?

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

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

  • 3 For the enemy pursues my soul. He has struck my life down to the ground. He has made me live in dark places, as those who have been long dead.

  • 5 By reason of the voice of my groaning, my bones stick to my skin.

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

  • 43 You have covered with anger and pursued us; you have killed, you have not pitied.

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

  • 3 Because of the voice of the enemy, Because of the oppression of the wicked. For they bring suffering on me. In anger they hold a grudge against me.

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

  • 11 He has turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he has made me desolate.

  • 2 I will tell God, 'Do not condemn me. Show me why you contend with me.