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Job: My Redeemer Lives

Job 19:22

In 11 translations

BSB
Why do you persecute me as God does? Will you never get enough of my flesh?
KJV
Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
WEB
Why do you persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
ASV
Why do ye persecute me as God, And are not satisfied with my flesh?
LSV
Why do you pursue me as God? And are not satisfied with my flesh?
YLT
Why do you pursue me as God? And with my flesh are not satisfied?
DBY
Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?El
DRC
Why do you persecute me as God, and glut yourselves with my flesh?
GNV
Why do ye persecute me, as God? and are not satisfied with my flesh?
JPS
Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
LXXE
Wherefore do ye persecute me as also the Lord does, and are not satisfied with my flesh?

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Original-language editions

WLC
לָ֭מָּה תִּרְדְּפֻ֣נִי כְמוֹ־אֵ֑ל וּ֝מִבְּשָׂרִ֗י לֹ֣א תִשְׂבָּֽעוּ׃
LXX-Br
Διατί με διώκετε ὥσπερ καὶ ὁ Κύριος; ἀπὸ δὲ σαρκῶν μου οὐκ ἐμπίπλασθε;

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Psalms 69:26For they persecute the one You struck and recount the pain of those You wounded.
  • Job 10:16Should I hold my head high, You would hunt me like a lion, and again display Your power against me.
  • Job 16:11God has delivered me to unjust men; He has thrown me to the clutches of the wicked.
  • 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.”
  • Job 13:25Would You frighten a windblown leaf? Would You chase after dry chaff?
  • Job 2:5But stretch out Your hand and strike his flesh and bones, and he will surely curse You to Your face.”
  • Job 31:31if the men of my house have not said, ‘Who is there who has not had his fill?’—
  • 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.”
  • Job 16:13–14His archers surround me. He pierces my kidneys without mercy and spills my gall on the ground. He breaks me with wound upon wound; He rushes me like a mighty warrior.

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