Parallel Verses

Bible in Basic English

Why are you cruel to me, like God, for ever saying evil against me?

New American Standard Bible

“Why do you persecute me as God does,
And are not satisfied with my flesh?

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

Why do you persecute me as God does?
Will you never get enough of my flesh?

International Standard Version

Why are you chasing me, as God has been doing? Aren't you satisfied that I'm sick?

A Conservative Version

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

American Standard Version

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

Amplified


“Why do you persecute me as God does?
Why are you not satisfied with my flesh (anguish)?

Darby Translation

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

Julia Smith Translation

Why will ye pursue me as God, and will ye not be satisfied from my flesh?

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

Why do you pursue me like God? And are not satisfied with my flesh?

Modern King James verseion

Why do you, like God, persecute me and are not satisfied with my flesh?

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

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

NET Bible

Why do you pursue me like God does? Will you never be satiated with my flesh?

New Heart English Bible

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

The Emphasized Bible

Wherefore should ye persecute me as GOD? and, with my flesh, should not he satisfied?

Webster

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

World English Bible

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

Youngs Literal Translation

Why do you pursue me as God? And with my flesh are not satisfied?

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
Why do ye persecute
רדף 
Radaph 
Usage: 143

me as God
אל 
'el 
Usage: 114

and are not satisfied
שׂבע שׂבע 
Saba` 
Usage: 98

Context Readings

I Am Forgotten

21 Have pity on me, have pity on me, O my friends! for the hand of God is on me. 22 Why are you cruel to me, like God, for ever saying evil against me? 23 If only my words might be recorded! if they might be put in writing in a book!



Cross References

Psalm 69:26

Because they are cruel to him against whom your hand is turned; they make bitter the grief of him who is wounded by you.

Job 2:5

But now, if you only put your hand on his bone and his flesh, he will certainly be cursing you to your face.

Job 10:16

And that if there was cause for pride, you would go after me like a lion; and again put out your wonders against me:

Job 13:25

Will you be hard on a leaf in flight before the wind? will you make a dry stem go more quickly on its way?

Job 16:11

God gives me over to the power of sinners, sending me violently into the hands of evil-doers.

Job 16:13-14

His bowmen come round about me; their arrows go through my body without mercy; my life is drained out on the earth.

Job 31:31

If the men of my tent did not say, Who has not had full measure of his meat?

Isaiah 51:23

And I will put it into the hand of your cruel masters, and of those whose yoke has been hard on you; who have said to your soul, Down on your face! so that we may go over you: and you have given your backs like the earth, even like the street, for them to go over.

Micah 3:3

Like meat they take the flesh of my people for their food, skinning them and crushing their bones, yes, cutting them up as if for the pot, like flesh inside the cooking-pot.

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