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 replied. This is what he said: ‘Please stop speaking to me like that! Your words continue to make me suffer. 3You have insulted me many, many times. You should be ashamed to attack me like that. 4I might have done things that are wrong. But even if that might be true, those wrong things have not hurt you.

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‘You should not continue to talk like this. Your words are like a wind that blows strongly.
• Job 18:2‘You should not continue to talk like that! Stop and think carefully. Then we can talk.
• Psalms 13:1Lord, will you forget about me for ever? When will you remember to come and help me?
• Revelation 6:10These believers called out loudly, ‘Lord, you have all authority. You are completely good. You always do what is right. When will you decide to judge the people who live on the earth? Do not wait! You should quickly punish the people who killed us!’
• Job 27:2‘Almighty God has not been fair to me. He has caused my life to be very sad. As surely as he lives, I promise this:
• Judges 16:16She continued to say the same thing to Samson many times. Her words made Samson very upset. He felt that he wanted to die.
• Psalms 6:2I do not feel strong, Lord, so please be kind to me. Lord, please make me well again. Even my bones are shaking.
• Psalms 42:10My enemies laugh at me all the time. It is like they are breaking all my bones. They are always saying, ‘Where is your God?’
• 2 Peter 2:7But God saved Lot from danger. Lot was a good man. He was very sad because the people in Sodom did not obey God's laws. They lived in a very bad way.
• Psalms 55:21He speaks a message of peace, but he is really thinking about war. His words are easy to listen to, but they hurt like sharp knives.
• Psalms 59:7They shout evil things, and their words hurt like swords. They think, ‘Nobody can hear what we say!’
• Psalms 64:3Their tongues are like sharp swords that hurt people. Their cruel words are like arrows that they shoot at people.
• Proverbs 12:18If you speak in a careless way, you may hurt other people. But when wise people speak, it makes people feel well.
• Proverbs 18:21Words have the power to bring life or death. So be careful if you talk a lot!
• James 3:6A person's tongue is like a fire. It has the power of everything in the world that is wrong. It is a small part of the body but it can spoil the whole person. Like a fire, it can destroy all of a person's life. It is a fire that comes from the fire of hell itself.

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

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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