Berean Standard Bible
Job 19:2
2“How long will you torment me and crush me with your 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: “How long will you torment me and crush me with your words? 3Ten times now you have reproached me; you shamelessly mistreat me. 4Even if I have truly gone astray, my error concerns me alone.
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עַד־אָ֭נָה תּוֹגְי֣וּן נַפְשִׁ֑י וּֽתְדַכְּאוּנַ֥נִי בְמִלִּֽים׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Job 19:2
- Job 8:2“How long will you go on saying such things? The words of your mouth are a blustering wind.
- Job 18:2“How long until you end these speeches? Show some sense, 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 6:10And they cried out in a loud voice, “How long, O Lord, holy and true, until You judge those who dwell upon the earth and avenge our blood?”
- Job 27:2“As surely as God lives, who has deprived me of justice— the Almighty, who has embittered my soul—
- Judges 16:16Finally, after she had pressed him daily with her words and pleaded until he was sick to death,
- Psalms 6:2Be merciful to me, O LORD, for I am frail; heal me, O LORD, for my bones are in agony.
- Psalms 42:10Like the crushing of my bones, my enemies taunt me, while they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”
- 2 Peter 2:7and if He rescued Lot, a righteous man distressed by the depraved conduct of the lawless
- Psalms 55:21His speech is smooth as butter, but war is in his heart. His words are softer than oil, yet they are swords unsheathed.
- Psalms 59:7See what they spew from their mouths— sharp words from their lips: “For who can hear us?”
- Psalms 64:3who sharpen their tongues like swords and aim their bitter words like arrows,
- Proverbs 12:18Speaking rashly is like a piercing sword, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.
- Proverbs 18:21Life and death are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit.
- James 3:6The tongue also is a fire, a world of wickedness among the parts of the body. It pollutes the whole person, sets the course of his life on fire, and is itself 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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