1. Job 19:21 (ESV)
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Commentary on Job 19:21 (Summary)

Job 19:21 (ESV)

21 Have mercy on me, have mercy on me, O you my friends, for the hand of God has touched me!

Job has given a heartrending account of his misery (Job 19:7–20). He has done this in order to arouse his friends’ pity. He now begs them for pity.

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