OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 22

Job 19:22

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Why do you persecute me as God,

and are not satisfied with my flesh?

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Job 19:22 in context

Job 19:19–25

19

All my familiar friends abhor me.

They whom I loved have turned against me.

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.

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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!

25

But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives.

In the end, he will stand upon the earth.

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