19:21 Have pity on me, my friends, have pity on me,
for the hand of God has struck me.
19:22 Why do you pursue me like God does? 1
Will you never be satiated with my flesh? 2
1 sn Strahan comments, “The whole tragedy of the book is packed into these extraordinary words.”
2 sn The idiom of eating the pieces of someone means “slander” in Aramaic (see Dan 3:8), Arabic and Akkadian.