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Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

Job 19:22

Verse Job 19:22. 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 labour to torment my mind?

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  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    WHY DO YE PERSECUTE ME AS GOD? - As God has done. That is, without giving me any reason for it; accusing me of crimes without proof, and condeming me without mitigation. That there is here an improper...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 19 JOB'S REPLY TO BILDAD _ 1. How long will ye vex my soul? (Job 19:1)_ 2. And I am not heard! (Job 19:7) 3. Forsaken of men he pleads to be pitied (Job 19:13) 4. Faith supreme ...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    JOB 19. JOB'S ANSWER. Here the gradual progress of Job's soul towards faith reaches its climax (Job 19:25 f.). It is to be remembered that Job's problem is in reality twofold: it has a personal side,...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    GOD. Hebrew El. App-4....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Overcome by his sense of the terrible enmity of God, Job piteously cries out for the compassion of men. There is a strong antithesis between "ye my friends" and the "hand of God," "God" (Job 19:22). T...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _satisfied with my flesh_ Why cannot ye be sated with devouring me? The figure is sufficiently plain. In Oriental phrase "to devour or eat the parts or pieces of one" is to calumniate him, to accuse h...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    4. He utters a plea for pity. (Job 19:20-22) TEXT 19:20-22 20 MY BONE CLEAVETH TO MY SKIN AND TO MY FLESH, And I am escaped with the skin of my teeth. 21 Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _WHY DO YE PERSECUTE ME AS GOD, AND ARE NOT SATISFIED WITH MY FLESH?_ As God - has persecuted me. Prefiguring Jesus Christ (Psalms 69:26). That God afflicts is no reason that man is to add to a suffe...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    19:22 flesh? (c-14) This would mean 'slander me.' see Daniel 3:8 ....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    JOB'S FIFTH SPEECH In this speech Job repeats his bitter complaints of God's injustice, and man's contemptuous abandonment of one formerly so loved and honoured. He appeals in broken utterances to his...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 19 JOB REPLIES TO BILDAD’S...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Job loved his three friends. They came a long way to comfort him (Job 2:11). And they sat with him silently for a long time (Job 2:13). But their speeches did not help him. The friends accused Job. An...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    WHY DO YE PERSECUTE ME AS GOD? — Comp. Job 16:9....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    לָ֭מָּה תִּרְדְּפֻ֣נִי כְמֹו ־אֵ֑ל וּ֝ מִ בְּ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    XVI. "MY REDEEMER LIVETH" Job 19:1 Job SPEAKS WITH simple strong art sustained by exuberant eloquence the author has now thrown his hero upon our sympathies, blending a strain of expectancy with te...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    “I KNOW THAT MY REDEEMER LIVETH” Job 19:1 In Job's melancholy condition his friends seemed only to add vexation and trial. The hirelings who sojourned in his household looked on him with disdain; his...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    To this terrible accusation Job replied first with a rebuke and a complaint. He demanded how long they would vex him, and declared that if he had erred, his sin was his own. If they would continue, le...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Why do ye persecute me as (n) God, and are not satisfied with my (o) flesh? (n) Is it not enough that God punishes me, unless you by reproaching increase my sorrow? (o) To see my body punished, unle...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Flesh? acting with the like inhumanity towards me. Am I not then sufficiently tormented in you opinion, that you insult over my distress? (Calmet)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (21) Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me. (22) Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh? Nothing could have been more...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31. As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks. They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure and...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    WHY DO YE PERSECUTE ME AS GOD,.... As if they were in his stead, or had the same power and authority over him, who is a sovereign Being, and does what he pleases with his creatures, and is not account...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh? Ver. 22. _Why do ye persecute me as God?_] Is this that pitying of me thus to press me with reproaches, and therein to think you gr...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Why do you persecute me as God?_ As if you had the same infinite knowledge which God hath, whereby you could search my heart, and know my hypocrisy, and the same sovereign authority, to say and do wh...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Why do ye persecute me as God, why should they assume divine authority in adding their persecution to that which the Lord had laid upon him, AND ARE NOT SATISFIED WITH MY FLESH? Though they were gnawi...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    JOB COMPLAINS OF THE NEGLECT HE SUFFERS...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    JOB'S REPLY TO BILDAD (vv.1-6). Though Job did not lose his temper at the unjust accusations of Bildad, he shows here that the reproaches of his friends have struck deeply into his soul. "How long w...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    AS GOD; either, 1. As God doth; or rather, 2. As if you were gods, and not men; as if you had the same infinite knowledge which God hath, whereby you can search my heart, and know my hypocrisy; and t...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 19:22 persecute H7291 (H8799) God H410 satisfied H7646 (H8799) flesh H1320 persecute - Job 10:16

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Job 19:1. _Then, Job answered and said, How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?_ They struck at him with their hard words, as if they were breaking stones on the roadside. We...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Job's answer to Bildad. His sublime faith. CHARACTERS: God, Job, friends. CONCLUSION: We may easily bear the unjust reproaches of men if we live in expectation of the glorious appearance o...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Job 19:3. _These ten times have ye reproached me._ A form of speech which puts a certain number for one less certain. Job had no doubt noticed about ten principal arguments levelled against him. Job 1...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Then Job answered and said._ COMPLAINTS AND CONFIDENCES I. Job bitterly complaining. 1. He complains of the conduct of his friends, and especially their want of sympathy. (1) They exasperated him...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JOB—NOTE ON JOB 19:1 Job responds, asking his friends how long they will persist in accusing him and why they feel no shame for doing so. Even if he has done wrong, it is God who has brought about his...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JOB—NOTE ON JOB 19:22 WHY ARE YOU NOT SATISFIED WITH MY FLESH? Job’s friends seem so convinced that he has sinned and that his suffering represents God’s judgment. Job asks why they continue to pursue...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    NOTES Job 19:23. “_O that my words were now written!_” The “words” understood as either— (1) _Those now to be uttered_. So JEROME, PISCATOR, CARYL, HENRY, &c. As an everlasting monument of his faith...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION JOB 19:1 Job begins his answer to Bildad's second speech by an expostulation against the unkindness of his friends, who break him in pieces, and torture him, with their reproaches (verses...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

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  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Isaiah 51:23; Job 10:16; Job 16:13; Job 16:14; Job 2:5;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    As God — As if you had the same infinite knowledge which God hath, whereby you can search my heart and know my hypocrisy, and the same sovereign authority to say and do what you please with me. Not sa...

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