“Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?”
"Why do you pursue me as God pursues me? Are you not satisfied with my flesh?" Job asks the friends why they add their persecution to God's. They are imitating God's assault. The rhetorical question suggests that they have consumed enough of his flesh through their accusations. He cannot sustain further assault.
Church Fathers on Job 19:22
Why do ye persecute me as God; and are filled with my flesh? It is not at variance with the style of piety that he tells that he is persecuted by God. For there is a good persecutor; as when the Lord says of Himself by the lips of the Prophet, Him that privily slandereth his neighbour, him did I persecute. But when any Saint is suffered to be stricken, he knows that he is undergoing persecution, sent against evil he has been guilty of, from the interior ordering. Now the…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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