Job 19:2

Job 19:2 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?
• New International Version (NIV)“How long will you torment me and crush me with words?
• English Standard Version (ESV)"How long will you torment me and break me in pieces with words?
• New King James Version (NKJV)“How long will you torment my soul, And break me in pieces with words?

Context of Job 19:2

1Then Job answered and said, “How long will you torment and exasperate me And crush me with words? 3These ten times you have insulted me; You are not ashamed to wrong me [and harden your hearts against me]. 4And if it were true that I have erred, My error would remain with me [and I would be conscious of it].

Job 19:2 word by word

עַד־אָ֭נָה תּוֹגְי֣וּן נַפְשִׁ֑י וּֽתְדַכְּאוּנַ֥נִי בְמִלִּֽים׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• How long will ye vexיָגָהyâgâh · to sufferH3013
• my soulנֶ֫פֶשׁnephesh · soul: myselfH5315
• and breakדָּכָאdâkâ' · to crushH1792
• me in pieces with wordsמִלָּהmillâh milleh · speechH4405

Cross-references for Job 19:2

• Job 8:2“How long will you say these things? And will the words of your mouth be a mighty wind?
• Job 18:2“How long will you hunt for words and continue these speeches? Do some clear thinking and show understanding and then we can talk.
• Psalms 13:1How long, O Lord? Will You forget me forever? How long will You hide Your face from me?
• Revelation 6:10They cried in a loud voice, saying, “O Lord, holy and true, how long now before You will sit in judgment and avenge our blood on those [unregenerate ones] who dwell on the earth?”
• Job 27:2“As God lives, who has taken away my right and denied me justice, And the Almighty, who has caused bitterness and grief for my soul,
• Judges 16:16When she pressured him day after day with her words and pleaded with him, he was annoyed to death.
• Psalms 6:2Have mercy on me and be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am weak (faint, frail); Heal me, O Lord, for my bones are dismayed and anguished.
• Psalms 42:10As a crushing of my bones [with a sword], my adversaries taunt me, While they say continually to me, “Where is your God?”
• 2 Peter 2:7and if He rescued righteous Lot, who was tormented by the immoral conduct of unprincipled and ungodly men
• Psalms 55:21The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, But his heart was hostile; His words were softer than oil, Yet they were drawn swords.
• Psalms 59:7Look how they belch out [insults] with their mouths; Swords [of sarcasm, ridicule, slander, and lies] are in their lips, For they say, “Who hears us?”
• Psalms 64:3Who have sharpened their tongues like a sword. They aim venomous words as arrows,
• Proverbs 12:18There is one who speaks rashly like the thrusts of a sword, But the tongue of the wise brings healing.
• Proverbs 18:21Death and life are in the power of the tongue, And those who love it and indulge it will eat its fruit and bear the consequences of their words.
• James 3:6And the tongue is [in a sense] a fire, the very world of injustice and unrighteousness; the tongue is set among our members as that which contaminates the entire body, and sets on fire the course of our life [the cycle of man’s existence], and is itself set on fire by hell (Gehenna).

Commentaries on Job 19:2

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 2How long will ye vex my soul - Every thing that was irritating, vexatious, and opprobrious, his friends had recourse to, in order to support their own system, and overwhelm him. Not one of them seems to have been touched with a feeling of tenderness towards him, nor does a kind expression drop at any time from their lips! They were called friends; but this term, in reference to them, must be taken in the sense of cold-blooded acquaintances. However, there…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 2How long will ye vex my soul? - Perhaps designing to reply to the taunting speech of Bildad; Job 18:2. “He” had asked “how long it would be ere Job would make an end of empty talk?” “Job” asks, in reply, “how long” they would torture and afflict his soul? Or whether there was on hope that this would ever come to an end! And break me in pieces - Crush me, or bruise me - like breaking any thing in a mortar, or breaking rocks by repeated blows of the hammer…Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-29SECOND SERIES. 2. How long, &c.--retorting Bildad's words (Job 18:2). Admitting the punishment to be deserved, is it kind thus ever to be harping on this to the sufferer? And yet even this they have not yet proved.Read the comment

Topics related to Job 19:2

• Persecution

In the dictionaries

• Acquaintance
• Fence
• Mouth
• Net

Commentaries on Job 19

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings