Job 19 · Verse 2

Job 19:2

How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?
Job 19:2, King James Version

Job 19:2 in other translations

BSB“How long will you torment me and crush me with your words?
WEB“How long will you torment me, and crush me with words?
ASVHow long will ye vex my soul, And break me in pieces with words?
YLTTill when do ye afflict my soul, And bruise me with words?
DARBYHow long will ye vex my soul, and crush me with words?
BBEHow long will you make my life bitter, crushing me with words?
WebsterHow long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?

What does Job 19:2 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
SECOND SERIES.

Job 19:1-29. Job's Reply to Bildad.

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.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 2 How 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 are many in the world that go under the sacred name of friends, who, in times of difficulty, act a similar part. Job's friends have been, by the general consent of posterity, consigned to endless infamy. May all those who follow their steps be equally enrolled in the annals of bad fame!

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 19:1-7

Job's friends blamed him as a wicked man, because he was so afflicted; here he describes their unkindness, showing that what they condemned was capable of excuse. Harsh language from friends, greatly adds to the weight of afflictions: yet it is best not to lay it to heart, lest we harbour resentment. Rather let us look to Him who endured the contradiction of sinners against himself, and was treated with far more…

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Job 19:2 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

עַד\־'ad-untilH5704
אָ֭נָה'A.nahwhen?H575
תּוֹגְי֣וּןtog.Yunwill you torment !H3013
נַפְשִׁ֑יnaf.Shiself myH5315
וּֽתְדַכְּאוּנַ֥נִיu.te.da.ke.'u.Na.niand will you crush? meH1792
בְמִלִּֽים\׃ve.mi.Limwith wordsH4405

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Cross references for Job 19:2

  • Psalms 6:2-3

    Have mercy upon me, O Lord; for I am weak: O Lord, heal me; for my bones are vexed. My soul is also sore vexed: but thou, O Lord, how long?

  • Revelation 6:10

    And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?

  • Psalms 42:10

    As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where is thy God?

  • Psalms 59:7

    Behold, they belch out with their mouth: swords are in their lips: for who, say they, doth hear?

  • Psalms 55:21

    The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart: his words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords.

  • Proverbs 18:21

    Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.

  • Job 8:2

    How long wilt thou speak these things? and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind?

  • 2 Peter 2:7-8

    And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked: (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;)

  • Judges 16:16

    And it came to pass, when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, so that his soul was vexed unto death;

  • James 3:6-8

    And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell. For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind: But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.

  • Proverbs 12:18

    There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.

  • Psalms 13:1

    To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. How long wilt thou forget me, O Lord? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
How long.
8:2; 18:2; Ps 13:1; Re 6:10
vex.
27:2; Jud 16:16; Ps 6:2,3; 42:10; 2Pe 2:7,8
break me.
Ps 55:21; 59:7; 64:3; Pr 12:18; 18:21; Jas 3:6-8

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Context

  • Job 19:1

    Then Job answered and said,

  • Job 19:2

    How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?

  • Job 19:3

    These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me.

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Job 19:2 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
¿Hasta cuándo angustiaréis mi alma, y me moleréis con palabras?
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Jusques à quand affligerez-vous mon âme, et m’accablerez-vous de paroles?
German
Elberfelder 1871
Wie lange wollt ihr meine Seele plagen und mich mit Worten zermalmen?
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Usquequo affligitis animam meam, et atteritis me sermonibus?