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Job 19:21-22
New Living Translation

21 “Have mercy on me, my friends, have mercy,
    for the hand of God has struck me.
22 Must you also persecute me, like God does?
    Haven’t you chewed me up enough?

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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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