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 spoke again: “How long will you torture me? How long will you try to crush me with your words? 3You have already insulted me ten times. You should be ashamed of treating me so badly. 4Even if I have sinned, that is my concern, not yours.

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“How long will you go on like this? You sound like a blustering wind.
• Job 18:2“How long before you stop talking? Speak sense if you want us to answer!
• Psalms 13:1O Lord, how long will you forget me? Forever? How long will you look the other way?
• Revelation 6:10They shouted to the Lord and said, “O Sovereign Lord, holy and true, how long before you judge the people who belong to this world and avenge our blood for what they have done to us?”
• Job 27:2“I vow by the living God, who has taken away my rights, by the Almighty who has embittered my soul—
• Judges 16:16She tormented him with her nagging day after day until he was sick to death of it.
• Psalms 6:2Have compassion on me, Lord, for I am weak. Heal me, Lord, for my bones are in agony.
• Psalms 42:10Their taunts break my bones. They scoff, “Where is this God of yours?”
• 2 Peter 2:7But God also rescued Lot out of Sodom because he was a righteous man who was sick of the shameful immorality of the wicked people around him.
• Psalms 55:21His words are as smooth as butter, but in his heart is war. His words are as soothing as lotion, but underneath are daggers!
• Psalms 59:7Listen to the filth that comes from their mouths; their words cut like swords. “After all, who can hear us?” they sneer.
• Psalms 64:3They sharpen their tongues like swords and aim their bitter words like arrows.
• Proverbs 12:18Some people make cutting remarks, but the words of the wise bring healing.
• Proverbs 18:21The tongue can bring death or life; those who love to talk will reap the consequences.
• James 3:6And among all the parts of the body, the tongue is a flame of fire. It is a whole world of wickedness, corrupting your entire body. It can set your whole life on fire, for it is set on fire by 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