Job 19:22, Psa 27:2 | JFB | STEP | 22. as God —has persecuted me. Prefiguring Jesus Christ ( ). That God afflicts is no reason that man is to add to a sufferer's affliction ( ). satisfied with my flesh —It is not enough that God afflicts my flesh literally ( ), but you must "eat my flesh" metaphorically ( ); that is, utter the worst calumnies, as the phrase often means in Arabic.

Job 19:22

22. as God—has persecuted me. Prefiguring Jesus Christ (Ps 69:26). That God afflicts is no reason that man is to add to a sufferer's affliction (Zec 1:15).

satisfied with my flesh—It is not enough that God afflicts my flesh literally (Job 19:20), but you must "eat my flesh" metaphorically (Ps 27:2); that is, utter the worst calumnies, as the phrase often means in Arabic.

Psalms 27:2

2. eat . . . my flesh— (Job 19:22; Ps 14:4). The allusion to wild beasts illustrates their rapacity.

they stumbled—"they" is emphatic; not I, but they were destroyed.