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Job 19:2
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How long will you torment meand crush me with words?
"How long will you torment me, And crush me with words?
How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?
"How long will you torment me and break me in pieces with words?
"How long will you hurt me and crush me with your words?
"How long will you torment me and crush me with your words?
"How long will you torment and exasperate me And crush me with words?
"How long will you torment me And crush me with words?
"How long will you torment me, And crush me with words?
Howe long will yee vexe my soule, and torment me with wordes?
"How long will you torment my soulAnd crush me with words?
How long will you torture me with your words?
"How long will you go on making me angry, crushing me with words?
How long will ye vex my soul, and crush me with words?
"How long will you hurt me and crush me with your words?
How long will you grieve my soul, and make me sick with words?
"How long will you torment me and crush me with words?
Until when will you torment my soul and break me in pieces with words?
How loge wil ye vexe my mynde, & trouble me with wordes?
How long will ye vex my soul, And break me in pieces with words?
How long will you make my life bitter, crushing me with words?
How long will ye vex my soul, and crush me with words?
How long will yee vexe my soule, and breake me in pieces with words?
How long wyll ye vexe my soule, and trouble me with wordes?
How long will ye vex my soul, and destroy me with words? only know that the Lord has dealt with me thus.
How long will ye vex my soul and break me in pieces with words?
and al to-breken me with wordis?
How long will you vex my soul, And break me in pieces with words?
How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?
"How long will you torment my soul, And break me in pieces with words?
"How long will you torture me? How long will you try to crush me with your words?
"How long will you make me suffer and crush me with words?
"How long will you torment me, and break me in pieces with words?
How long will ye grieve my soul? or crush me with words?
How long do you afflict my soul, and break me in pieces with words?
"How long will you torment me, and break me in pieces with words?
Till when do ye afflict my soul, And bruise me with words?
"How long will you torment me And crush me with words?
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
How long: Job 8:2, Job 18:2, Psalms 13:1, Revelation 6:10
vex: Job 27:2, Judges 16:16, Psalms 6:2, Psalms 6:3, Psalms 42:10, 2 Peter 2:7, 2 Peter 2:8
break me: Psalms 55:21, Psalms 59:7, Psalms 64:3, Proverbs 12:18, Proverbs 18:21, James 3:6-8
Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 2:26 - how long Job 13:5 - General Job 16:2 - heard Job 27:12 - altogether Job 34:24 - break Psalms 72:4 - break Psalms 109:16 - persecuted Psalms 119:22 - Remove
Cross-References
Let a little water be brought, that you may wash your feet and rest yourselves under the tree.
As soon as the men had brought them out, one of them said, "Run for your lives! Do not look back, and do not stop anywhere on the plain! Flee to the mountains, or you will be swept away!"
"Very well," he answered, "I will grant this request as well, and will not demolish the town you indicate.
He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah and all the land of the plain, and he saw the smoke rising from the land like smoke from a furnace.
So when God destroyed the cities of the plain, He remembered Abraham, and He brought Lot out of the catastrophe that destroyed the cities where he had lived.
And when she and her household had been baptized, she urged us, "If you consider me a believer in the Lord, come and stay at my house." And she persuaded us.
Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by so doing some people have entertained angels without knowing it.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
How long will ye vex my soul,.... Which of all vexation is the worst; not only his bones were vexed, but his soul also, as David's was, Psalms 6:2. His body was vexed with boils from head to feet; but now his soul was vexed by his friends, and which denotes extreme vexation, a man's being vexed to his very heart: there are many things vexations to men, especially to good men; they are not only vexed with pains of the body, as others, and with loss of worldly substance; but even all things here below, and the highest enjoyment of them, as wealth, wisdom, honours, and pleasures, are all vanity and vexation of spirit, as they were to Solomon; but more especially truly good men are vexed with the corruptions of their hearts, which are as pricks in their eyes and thorns in their sides, and with the temptations of Satan, which are also thorns in the flesh and fiery darts, and with the conversation of wicked men, as was the soul of righteous Lot, and with the bad principles and practices of professors of religion; and sometimes, as Job was, they are vexed by their own friends, who should be their comforters, but prove miserable ones, as his did, and even vexations, and continued so to the wearing him out almost; and so some render the words, "how long will ye weary my soul" c? with repeating their insinuations that he was a wicked and hypocritical man, and therefore was afflicted of God in the manner he was; and which, knowing his own innocency, extremely vexed him:
and break me in pieces with words? not his body, but his spirit; which was broken, not by the word of God, which is like an hammer that breaks the rocky heart in pieces; for such a breaking is in mercy, and not an affliction to be complained of; and such as are thus broken are healed again, and bound up by the same hand that breaks; who has great, regard to broken spirits and contrite hearts; looks to them, and dwells with them, in order to revive and comfort them: but by the words of men; Job was smitten with the tongues of men; as Jeremiah was, and was beaten and bruised by them, as anything is beaten and bruised by a pestle in a mortar, as the word d signifies, and is sometimes rendered,
Isaiah 53:5; these must be not soft but hard words, not gentle reproofs, which being given and taken in love, will not break the head, but calumnies and reproaches falsely cast, and with great severity, and frequently, which break the heart. See Psalms 69:20.
c תגיון "defatigabitis", Schmidt, Michaelis. d תדכאונני "obtundetis", Vatablus, Piscator, Schmidt; so Michaelis, Schultens.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
How 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. “Noyes.” He says they had crushed him, as if by repeated blows.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 19:2. 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!
