New King James Version
Job 19:2
2“How long will you torment my soul, 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?
- English Standard Version (ESV)"How long will you torment me 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 my soul, And break me in pieces with words? 3These ten times you have reproached me; You are not ashamed that you have wronged me. 4And if indeed I have erred, My error remains with me.
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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 speak these things, And the words of your mouth be like a strong wind?
- Job 18:2“How long till you put an end to words? Gain understanding, and afterward we will speak.
- Psalms 13:1How long, O Lord? Will You forget me forever? How long will You hide Your face from me?
- Revelation 6:10And they cried with a loud voice, saying, “How long, O Lord, holy and true, until You judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?”
- Job 27:2“As God lives, who has taken away my justice, And the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter,
- Judges 16:16And it came to pass, when she pestered him daily with her words and pressed him, so that his soul was vexed to death,
- Psalms 6:2Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am weak; O Lord, heal me, for my bones are troubled.
- Psalms 42:10As with a breaking of my bones, My enemies reproach me, While they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”
- 2 Peter 2:7and delivered righteous Lot, who was oppressed by the filthy conduct of the wicked
- Psalms 55:21The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, But war was in his heart; His words were softer than oil, Yet they were drawn swords.
- Psalms 59:7Indeed, they belch with their mouth; Swords are in their lips; For they say, “Who hears?”
- Psalms 64:3Who sharpen their tongue like a sword, And bend their bows to shoot their arrows—bitter words,
- Proverbs 12:18There is one who speaks like the piercings of a sword, But the tongue of the wise promotes health.
- 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, a world of iniquity. The tongue is so set among our members that it defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature; and it 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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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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