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

1And Job answered and said, How long will ye vex my soul, and crush me with words? 3These ten times have ye reproached me; ye are not ashamed to stupefy me. 4And be it [that] I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself.

Job 19:2 word by word

עַד־אָ֭נָה תּוֹגְי֣וּן נַפְשִׁ֑י וּֽתְדַכְּאוּנַ֥נִי בְמִלִּֽים׃Read the interlinear

• soulנֶ֫פֶשׁnephesh · soulH5315
• crushדָּכָאdâkâ' · to crushH1792
• wordsמִלָּהmillâh milleh · speechH4405

Cross-references for Job 19:2

• Job 8:2How long wilt thou speak these things? and the words of thy mouth be a strong wind?
• Job 18:2How long will ye hunt for words? Be intelligent, and then we will speak.
• Psalms 13:1How long, Jehovah, wilt thou forget me for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?
• Revelation 6:10and they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O sovereign Ruler, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell upon the earth?
• Job 27:2[As] God liveth, who hath taken away my right, and the Almighty, who hath embittered 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 6:2Be gracious unto me, Jehovah, for I am withered; Jehovah, heal me, for my bones tremble.
• Psalms 42:10As with a crushing in my bones mine adversaries reproach me, while they say unto me all the day, Where is thy God?
• 2 Peter 2:7and saved righteous Lot, distressed with the abandoned conversation of the godless,
• Psalms 55:21Smooth were the milky [words] of his mouth, but his heart was war; his words were softer than oil, yet are 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 sharpened their tongue like a sword, [and] have aimed their arrow, a bitter word;
• Proverbs 12:18There is that babbleth 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] fire, the world of unrighteousness; the tongue is set in our members, the defiler of the whole body, and which sets fire to the course of nature, and is set on fire of 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

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