English Standard Version
Job 19:2
2"How long will you torment me 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?
- New King James Version (NKJV)“How long will you torment my soul, And break me in pieces with words?
- New Living Translation (NLT)“How long will you torture me? How long will you try to crush me with your words?
Context of Job 19:2
1Then Job answered and said: "How long will you torment me and break me in pieces with words? 3These ten times you have cast reproach upon me; are you not ashamed to wrong me? 4And even if it be true that I have erred, my error remains with myself.
Read all of Job 19Job 19:2 word by word
עַד־אָ֭נָה תּוֹגְי֣וּן נַפְשִׁ֑י וּֽתְדַכְּאוּנַ֥נִי בְמִלִּֽים׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 19:2
- Job 8:2"How long will you say these things, and the words of your mouth be a great wind?
- Job 18:2"How long will you hunt for words? Consider, and then we will speak.
- Psalms 13:1How long, O Lord? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?
- Revelation 6:10They cried out with a loud voice, "O Sovereign Lord, holy and true, how long before you will judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?"
- Job 27:2"As God lives, who has taken away my right, and the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter,
- Judges 16:16And when she pressed him hard with her words day after day, and urged him, his soul was vexed to death.
- Psalms 6:2Be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am languishing; heal me, O Lord, for my bones are troubled.
- Psalms 42:10As with a deadly wound in my bones, my adversaries taunt me, while they say to me all the day long, "Where is your God?"
- 2 Peter 2:7and if he rescued righteous Lot, greatly distressed by the sensual conduct of the wicked
- Psalms 55:21His speech was smooth as butter, yet war was in his heart; his words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.
- Psalms 59:7There they are, bellowing with their mouths with swords in their lips— for "Who," they think, "will hear us?"
- Psalms 64:3who whet their tongues like swords, who aim bitter words like arrows,
- Proverbs 12:18There is one whose rash words are like sword thrusts, 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 fruits.
- James 3:6And the tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness. The tongue is set among our members, staining the whole body, setting on fire the entire course of life, and 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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