New American Standard Bible 2020
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 responded, “How long will you torment me And crush me with words? 3These ten times you have insulted me; You are not ashamed to wrong me. 4Even if I have truly done wrong, My error stays with me.
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עַד־אָ֭נָה תּוֹגְי֣וּן נַפְשִׁ֑י וּֽתְדַכְּאוּנַ֥נִי בְמִלִּֽים׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Job 19:2
- Job 8:2“How long will you say these things, And the words of your mouth be a mighty wind?
- Job 18:2“How long will you hunt for words? Show understanding, 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 6:10and they cried out with a loud voice, saying, “How long, O Lord, holy and true, will You refrain from judging and avenging our blood on those who live on the earth?”
- Job 27:2“As God lives, who has taken away my right, And the Almighty, who has embittered my soul,
- Judges 16:16And it came about, when she pressed him daily with her words and urged him, that his soul was annoyed to death.
- Psalms 6:2Be gracious to me, Lord, for I am frail; Heal me, Lord, for my bones are horrified.
- Psalms 42:10As a shattering of my bones, my adversaries taunt me, While they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”
- 2 Peter 2:7and if He rescued righteous Lot, who was oppressed by the perverted conduct of unscrupulous people
- Psalms 55:21His speech was smoother than butter, But his heart was war; His words were softer than oil, Yet they were drawn swords.
- Psalms 59:7Behold, they gush forth with their mouths; Swords are in their lips, For, they say, “Who hears?”
- Psalms 64:3Who have sharpened their tongues like a sword. They aimed bitter speech as their arrows,
- Proverbs 12:18There is one who speaks rashly like the thrusts of a 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 very world of unrighteousness; the tongue is set among our body’s parts as that which defiles the whole body and sets on fire the course of our life, and is 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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- 1. Job 19:2 Lit my soul ↩
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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