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Job 19:21-22
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21 Have pity on me, my friends, have pity on me,
for the hand of God has struck me.
22 Why do you pursue me like God does?[a]
Will you never be satiated with my flesh?[b]

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  1. Job 19:22 sn Strahan comments, “The whole tragedy of the book is packed into these extraordinary words.”
  2. Job 19:22 sn The idiom of eating the pieces of someone means “slander” in Aramaic (see Dan 3:8), Arabic and Akkadian.
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Job 19:21-22
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21 Have mercy on me, have mercy on me, O you my friends,
    for the hand of God has (A)touched me!
22 Why do you, like God, (B)pursue me?
    Why are you not satisfied with my flesh?

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