22 Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
22 Why do you pursue me as God does? Will you never get enough of my flesh?
22 Why do you, like God, pursue me? Why are you not satisfied with my flesh?
22 Do you have to be hard on me too? Don't you ever tire of abusing me?
22 Why do you persecute me as God does, And are not satisfied with my flesh?
22 Must you also persecute me, like God does? Haven't you chewed me up enough?
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Job 19:22
Commentary on Job 19:8-22
(Read Job 19:8-22)
How doleful are Job's complaints! What is the fire of hell but the wrath of God! Seared consciences will feel it hereafter, but do not fear it now: enlightened consciences fear it now, but shall not feel it hereafter. It is a very common mistake to think that those whom God afflicts he treats as his enemies. Every creature is that to us which God makes it to be; yet this does not excuse Job's relations and friends. How uncertain is the friendship of men! but if God be our Friend, he will not fail us in time of need. What little reason we have to indulge the body, which, after all our care, is consumed by diseases it has in itself. Job recommends himself to the compassion of his friends, and justly blames their harshness. It is very distressing to one who loves God, to be bereaved at once of outward comfort and of inward consolation; yet if this, and more, come upon a believer, it does not weaken the proof of his being a child of God and heir of glory.