Job 19:22
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Why do you persecute me as God does? Will you never get enough of my flesh?”
What this verse means
A short, plain-language explanation of Job 19:22 goes here — the kind of answer a reader (or an AI assistant) can quote in one breath. Original meaning coming soon.
Compare translations
BSBPD
“Why do you persecute me as God does? Will you never get enough of my flesh?”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“Why do ye persecute me as God, And are not satisfied with my flesh?”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“Why do you pursue me as God? And with my flesh are not satisfied?”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Job 19:22 — 10 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 2:5But stretch out Your hand and strike his flesh and bones, and he will surely curse You to Your face.”
- Job 10:16Should I hold my head high, You would hunt me like a lion, and again display Your power against me.
- Job 13:25Would You frighten a windblown leaf? Would You chase after dry chaff?
- Job 16:11God has delivered me to unjust men; He has thrown me to the clutches of the wicked.
- Job 16:13His archers surround me. He pierces my kidneys without mercy and spills my gall on the ground.
- Job 31:31if the men of my house have not said, ‘Who is there who has not had his fill?’—
- Psalms 69:26For they persecute the one You struck and recount the pain of those You wounded.
- Psalms 69:27Add iniquity to their iniquity; let them not share in Your righteousness.
- Isaiah 51:23I will place it in the hands of your tormentors, who told you: ‘Lie down, so we can walk over you,’ so that you made your back like the ground, like a street to be traversed.”
- Micah 3:3You eat the flesh of my people after stripping off their skin and breaking their bones. You chop them up like flesh for the cooking pot, like meat in a cauldron.”
Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).
Keep exploring