Job 19 · Verse 22

Job 19:22

Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
Job 19:22, King James Version

Job 19:22 in other translations

BSBWhy do you persecute me as God does? Will you never get enough of my flesh?
WEBWhy do you persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
ASVWhy do ye persecute me as God, And are not satisfied with my flesh?
YLTWhy do you pursue me as God? And with my flesh are not satisfied?
DARBYWhy do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
BBEWhy are you cruel to me, like God, for ever saying evil against me?
WebsterWhy do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?

What does Job 19:22 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
22. as God--has persecuted me. Prefiguring Jesus Christ (Psa 69:26). That God afflicts is no reason that man is to add to a sufferer's affliction (Zec 1:15). satisfied with my flesh--It is not enough that God afflicts my flesh literally (Job 19:20), but you must "eat my flesh" metaphorically (Psa 27:2); that is, utter the worst calumnies, as the phrase often means in Arabic.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 22 Why do ye persecute me as God - Are not the afflictions which God sends enough? Do ye not see that I have as much as I can bear? When the papists were burning Dr. Taylor at Oxford, while wrapped in the flames, one of the true sons of the Church took a stick out of the faggots, and threw it at his head, and split open his face. To whom he calmly said, Man, why this wrong? Do not I suffer enough? And are not satisfied with my flesh? - Will ye persecute my soul, while God is persecuting my body? Is it not enough that my body is destroyed? Why then labor to torment my mind?

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 19:8-22

How doleful are Job's complaints! What is the fire of hell but the wrath of God! Seared consciences will feel it hereafter, but do not fear it now: enlightened consciences fear it now, but shall not feel it hereafter. It is a very common mistake to think that those whom God afflicts he treats as his enemies. Every creature is that to us which God makes it to be; yet this does not excuse Job's relations and friends…

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Job 19:22 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

לָ֭מָּהLa.mah<to> why?H4100
תִּרְדְּפֻ֣נִיtir.de.Fu.niare you persecuting meH7291
כְמוֹ\־khe.mov-likeH3644
אֵ֑ל'ElGodH410
וּ֝מִבְּשָׂרִ֗יu.mi.be.sa.Riand from flesh myH1320
לֹ֣אlo'notH3808
תִשְׂבָּֽעוּ\׃tis.Ba.'uare you satisfied?H7646

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Job 19:22

  • Psalms 69:26

    For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded.

  • Job 13:25

    Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?

  • Job 31:31

    If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied.

  • Job 16:11

    God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.

  • Micah 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.

  • Isaiah 51:23

    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.

  • Job 2:5

    But put forth thine hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face.

  • Job 10:16

    For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me.

  • Job 16:13-14

    His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground. He breaketh me with breach upon breach, he runneth upon me like a giant.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
persecute.
10:16; 16:13,14; Ps 69:26
and are not.
2:5; 31:31; Isa 51:23; Mic 3:3

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Job 19:21

    Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.

  • Job 19:22

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

  • Job 19:23

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

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Job 19:22 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		¿Por qué me perseguís como Dios, y no os hartáis de mis carnes?
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Pourquoi, comme ✶Dieu, me poursuivez-vous et n’êtes-vous pas rassasiés de ma chair?
German
Elberfelder 1871		Warum verfolget ihr mich wie Gott und werdet meines Fleisches nicht satt?
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Quare persequimini me sicut Deus, et carnibus meis saturamini?