Job 19:21

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

Cross-references

Job 1:11 Prophetic fulfillment

Job 1:11 records Satan's challenge for God to touch Job — now in Job 19:21, Job says God's hand has touched him, fulfilling that test.

Job 2:5 Prophetic fulfillment

In Job 2:5, Satan asks God to stretch out His hand and touch Job — the very hand Job now feels in 19:21, showing the origin of his affliction.

Job 6:4 Parallel

In Job 6:4, Job describes God's arrows and terrors against him — the same divine assault he calls 'the hand of God' in 19:21.

Job 6:14 Parallel

Job 6:14 states that withholding kindness from a friend forsakes God — directly relevant to Job's plea for mercy in Job 19:21.

Job 2:11 Historical context

In Job 2:11, Job's friends come to sympathize — the very audience he now begs for pity, grounding his plea in the narrative context.

Job 6:9 Contrast

In Job 6:9, Job wishes God would let loose His hand and crush him — the same hand he says has touched him, now desired to end his suffering.

Job 2:10 Contrast

In Job 2:10, Job accepts both good and evil from God; here he pleads for pity, contrasting his earlier resignation with his current anguish.

Job 4:5 Allusion

In Job 4:5, Eliphaz says calamity 'touches' Job and he is dismayed — echoing the same 'touch' of affliction Job laments in 19:21.

Hebrews 13:3 Related theme

Hebrews 13:3 calls for remembering prisoners as if in prison with them — identifying with the suffering Job asks his friends to show.

1 Corinthians 12:26 Related theme

1 Corinthians 12:26 teaches that if one member suffers, all suffer together — the solidarity Job seeks in his plea for mercy.

Romans 12:15 Related theme

Romans 12:15 commands weeping with those who weep — the very compassion Job begs for from his friends.

Psalm 38:2 Parallel

In Psalm 38:2, the psalmist uses identical imagery: God's arrows sinking in and His hand pressing down — mirroring Job's experience of divine affliction.

Psalm 69:20 Parallel

In Psalm 69:20, the psalmist laments finding no pity or comfort — echoing Job's plea for pity from friends who have not given it.

Psalm 69:26 Parallel

In Psalm 69:26, the psalmist describes persecuting those God has wounded — a parallel to how Job's friends add to his suffering.

In Lamentations 3:1, the speaker describes affliction under God's rod — a direct parallel to Job's claim that God's hand has touched him.

Ruth 1:13 Parallel

In Ruth 1:13, Naomi says the Lord's hand has gone out against her — the same phrase Job uses, both feeling struck by God's hand.

In Jeremiah 15:5, God declares no one will pity Jerusalem — a parallel to Job's plea for pity that goes unanswered.

Psalm 109:16 describes one who shows no kindness to the brokenhearted — mirroring the lack of pity Job receives.

In Ecclesiastes 4:1, the Preacher observes the oppressed with no comforter — a universal echo of Job's situation.

Psalm 6:2 Parallel

In Psalm 6:2, the psalmist cries to God for grace in affliction — a similar plea for mercy but directed to God.