Job 19:22
Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
Cross-references
Job 19:28 directly asks 'Why persecute we him?' — the same persecution theme in the immediate context.
In Job 10:16, Job describes God hunting him like a lion — the same divine persecution he accuses his friends of mimicking.
In Job 16:13, God's archers pierce him — parallel to the friends' persecution as God's agents.
In Job 16:14, God breaks him with breach upon breach — same relentless attack Job attributes to his friends.
Job 31:31 uses the phrase 'not satisfied with his flesh' — a direct verbal echo of Job's complaint.
Psalm 69:26 describes persecuting those God has already wounded — exactly what Job's friends do.
Psalm 27:2 uses the same 'eat my flesh' imagery of enemies attacking, echoing Job's complaint of being pursued like prey.
Psalm 109:16 depicts the wicked pursuing the poor to death, similar to Job's accusation that his friends pursue him like God.
Ecclesiastes 4:1 observes oppression with no comforter, paralleling Job's experience of being pursued and unsatisfied.