Matthew Poole and continuators on Job 19:22

22. Why do ye persecute me as God , and are not satisfied with my flesh ?

Either 1. as God doth; or rather 2. as if you were gods and not men; as if you had the same infinite knowledge which God hath, whereby you can search my heart and know my hypocrisie, and the same soveraign and absolute Authority to say and do what you please with me, without giving any reason or account of it, which is indeed the Prerogative of the great God, but it belongs not to you who are men, and therefore liable to mistake and misjudging, and such as must give an account to God of all their words and carriages towards their Brethren, and particularly towards persons in affliction, and withal subject to the same Diseases and Calamities under which I groan; and therefore may need the pity which I expect from you.

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