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Job 19:21-22
New English Translation

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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Footnotes

  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
International Standard Version

Job Pleads with His Friends

21 “Be gracious to me, be gracious to me, my friends,
    because God’s hand has struck me.
22 Why are you chasing me, as God has been doing?
    Aren’t you satisfied that I’m sick?[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Job 19:22 Lit. satisfied with my flesh
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