Job 19:21
“Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.”
All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.
My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.
Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; for the hand of God hath touched me.
Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!
Counter-Arguments
The strongest case that this verse does not belong in this theme.
Cross-References
“But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face.”
“Would ye tarry for them till they were grown? would ye stay for them from having husbands? nay, my daughters; for it grieveth me much for your sakes that the hand of the Lord is gone out against me.”
“Let thine eyes be on the field that they do reap, and go thou after them: have I not charged the young men that they shall not touch thee? and when thou art athirst, go unto the vessels, and drink of that which the young men have drawn.”
“But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face.”
“But now it is come upon thee, and thou faintest; it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.”