Christian Standard Bible
Job 19:2
2How long will you torment me and crush me 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: How long will you torment me and crush me with words? 3You have humiliated me ten times now, and you mistreat me without shame. 4Even if it is true that I have sinned, my mistake concerns only me.
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עַד־אָ֭נָה תּוֹגְי֣וּן נַפְשִׁ֑י וּֽתְדַכְּאוּנַ֥נִי בְמִלִּֽים׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 19:2
- Job 8:2How long will you go on saying these things? Your words are a blast of wind.
- Job 18:2How long until you stop talking? Show some sense, and then we can talk.
- Psalms 13:1How long, Lord? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?
- Revelation 6:10They cried out with a loud voice, “Lord, the one who is holy and true, how long until you judge those who live on the earth and avenge our blood?”
- Job 27:2As God lives, who has deprived me of justice, and the Almighty who has made me bitter,
- Judges 16:16Because she nagged him day after day and pleaded with him until she wore him out,
- Psalms 6:2Be gracious to me, Lord, for I am weak; heal me, Lord, for my bones are shaking;
- Psalms 42:10My adversaries taunt me, as if crushing my bones, while all day long they say to me, “Where is your God?”
- 2 Peter 2:7and if he rescued righteous Lot, distressed by the depraved behavior of the immoral
- Psalms 55:21His buttery words are smooth, but war is in his heart. His words are softer than oil, but they are drawn swords.
- Psalms 59:7Look, they spew from their mouths — sharp words from their lips. “For who,” they say, “will hear?”
- Psalms 64:3who sharpen their tongues like swords and aim bitter words like arrows,
- Proverbs 12:18There is one who speaks rashly, like a piercing 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 will eat its fruit.
- James 3:6And the tongue is a fire. The tongue, a world of unrighteousness, is placed among our members. It stains the whole body, sets the course of 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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