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Job 19:22 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" Why do you persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh? "
Job 19:22
Verse in Context
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20 My bones stick to my skin and to my flesh. I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
21 “Have pity on me. Have pity on me, you my friends, for the hand of God has touched me.
22 Why do you persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
23 “Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book!
24 That with an iron pen and lead they were engraved in the rock forever!
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Job 19:1
"Then Job answered,"
Job 19:2
"“How long will you torment me, and crush me with words?"
Job 19:3
"You have reproached me ten times. You aren’t ashamed that you attack me."
Job 19:4
"If it is true that I have erred, my error remains with myself."
Job 19:5
"If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach,"
Job 19:6
"know now that God has subverted me, and has surrounded me with his net."
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