God’s Word Translation
Job 19:2
2“How long will you torment me and depress 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 replied ⌞to his friends⌟, “How long will you torment me and depress me with words? 3You have insulted me ten times now. You’re not even ashamed of mistreating me. 4Even if it were true that I’ve made a mistake without realizing it, my mistake would affect only me.
Read all of Job 19Job 19:2 word by word
עַד־אָ֭נָה תּוֹגְי֣וּן נַפְשִׁ֑י וּֽתְדַכְּאוּנַ֥נִי בְמִלִּֽים׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 19:2
- Job 8:2“How long will you say these things? How long will your words be so windy?
- Job 18:2“How long before your words will end? Think it through, and then we’ll talk.
- 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 in a loud voice, “Holy and true Master, how long before you judge and take revenge on those living on earth who shed our blood?”
- Job 27:2“I swear an oath by God, the one who has taken away my rights, by the Almighty, who has made my life bitter:
- Judges 16:16Every day she made his life miserable with her questions. She pestered him until he wished he were dead.
- Psalms 6:2Have pity on me, O Lord, because I am weak. Heal me, O Lord, because my bones shake with terror.
- Psalms 42:10With a shattering blow to my bones, my enemies taunt me. They ask me all day long, “Where is your God?”
- 2 Peter 2:7Yet, God rescued Lot, a man who had his approval. Lot was distressed by the lifestyle of people who had no principles and lived in sexual freedom.
- Psalms 55:21His speech is smoother than butter, but there is war in his heart. His words are more soothing than oil, but they are like swords ready to attack.
- Psalms 59:7See what pours out of their mouths— swords from their lips! ⌞They think,⌟ “Who will hear us?”
- Psalms 64:3They sharpen their tongues like swords. They aim bitter words like arrows
- Proverbs 12:18Careless words stab like a sword, but the words of wise people bring healing.
- Proverbs 18:21The tongue has the power of life and death, and those who love to talk will have to eat their own words.
- James 3:6The tongue is that kind of flame. It is a world of evil among the parts of our bodies, and it completely contaminates our bodies. The tongue sets our lives on fire, and is itself set on fire from 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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