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Job 19:22 Meaning & Commentary – Why Do You Persecute Me?

Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?

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Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.

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My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.

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All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.

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Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.

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My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children's sake of mine own body.

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I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth.

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They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.

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My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.

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He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.