Job 19:22

19:22 Why do you pursue me like God does? ¹ 

Will you never be satiated with my flesh? ² 

Psalms 69:26

69:26 For they harass ³  the one whom you discipline; ⁴ 

they spread the news about the suffering of those whom you punish. ⁵ 

[19:22]  ¹ sn Strahan comments, “The whole tragedy of the book is packed into these extraordinary words.”

[19:22]  ² sn The idiom of eating the pieces of someone means “slander” in Aramaic (see Dan 3:8), Arabic and Akkadian.

[69:26]  ³ tn Or “persecute”; Heb “chase.”

[69:26]  ⁴ tn Heb “for you, the one whom you strike, they chase.”

[69:26]  ⁵ tn Heb “they announce the pain of your wounded ones” (i.e., “the ones whom you wounded,” as the parallel line makes clear).