Job 19:22 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²²Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?

Job 19:22 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 69:26
For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded.
Job 31:31
If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied.
Job 10:16
For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me.
Job 13:25
Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?
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.

Topics

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 8-22)

Bildad had very disingenuously perverted Job’s complaints by making them the description of the miserable condition of a wicked man; and yet he repeats them here, to move their pity, and to work upon their good nature, if they had any left in them. I. He complains of the tokens of God’s displeasure which he was under, and which infused the wormwood and gall into the affliction and misery. How dole…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 22)

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.