American Standard Version
Job 19:2
2How long will ye vex my soul,And break me in pieces with words?
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 ye vex my soul, And break me in pieces with words? 3These ten times have ye reproached me: Ye are not ashamed that ye deal hardly with me. 4And be it indeed that I have erred, Mine error remaineth with myself.
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עַד־אָ֭נָה תּוֹגְי֣וּן נַפְשִׁ֑י וּֽתְדַכְּאוּנַ֥נִי בְמִלִּֽים׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Job 19:2
- Job 8:2How long wilt thou speak these things? Andhow longshall the words of thy mouth be like a mighty wind?
- Job 18:2How long will ye hunt for words? Consider, and afterwards we will speak.
- Psalms 13:1How long, O Jehovah? wilt thou forget me for ever? How long wilt thou hide thy face from me?
- Revelation 6:10and they cried with a great voice, saying, How long, O Master, the holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?
- Job 27:2As God liveth, who hath taken away my right, And the Almighty, who hath vexed my soul
- Judges 16:16And it came to pass, when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, that his soul was vexed unto death.
- Psalms 6:2Have mercy upon me, O Jehovah; for I am withered away: O Jehovah, heal me; for my bones are troubled.
- Psalms 42:10As with a sword in my bones, mine adversaries reproach me, While they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?
- 2 Peter 2:7and delivered righteous Lot, sore distressed by the lascivious life of the wicked
- Psalms 55:21His mouth was smooth as butter, But his heart was war: His words were softer than oil, Yet were they drawn swords.
- Psalms 59:7Behold, they belch out with their mouth; Swords are in their lips: For who, say they, doth hear?
- Psalms 64:3Who have whet their tongue like a sword, And have aimed their arrows, even bitter words,
- Proverbs 12:18There is that speaketh rashly like the piercings of a sword; But the tongue of the wise is health.
- Proverbs 18:21Death and life are in the power of the tongue; And they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
- James 3:6And the tongue is a fire: the world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the wheel of nature, and is set on fire by hell.
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
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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
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