Job 19:22

Modern

Why do you persecute me as God does? Will you never get enough of my flesh?

Traditional

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

Literal

Why do you pursue me as God does? Are you not even satisfied with my flesh?

Latin

Quare persequimini me sicut Deus, et carnibus meis saturamini?

Hebrew

English

Why do you persecute me as God does? Will you never get enough of my flesh?

persecute (literally pursue): Job said that God followed him like a someone hunting or a warrior (10:16; 16:13).

Psalm 69:26
For they persecute the one You struck and recount the pain of those You wounded.
Micah 3:3
You 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.”
Isaiah 51:23
I 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 31:31
…if the men of my house have not said, ‘Who is there who has not had his fill?’—
Job 2:5
But stretch out Your hand and strike his flesh and bones, and he will surely curse You to Your face.”
Job 13:25
Would You frighten a windblown leaf? Would You chase after dry chaff?
Job 16:11
God has delivered me to unjust men; He has thrown me to the clutches of the wicked.
Job 10:16
Should I hold my head high, You would hunt me like a lion, and again display Your power against me.
Job 16:13–14
His archers surround me. He pierces my kidneys without mercy and spills my gall on the ground.

LORD: Names or title used to refer to God