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Job 19:2

"How long will you hurt me and crush me with your words?

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Persecution;   Thompson Chain Reference - Job;  

Dictionaries:

- Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Greatness of God;   Hypocrisy;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Job, the Book of;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
How long will you torment meand crush me with words?
Hebrew Names Version
"How long will you torment me, And crush me with words?
King James Version
How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?
English Standard Version
"How long will you torment me and break me in pieces with words?
New Century Version
"How long will you hurt me and crush me with your words?
New English Translation
"How long will you torment me and crush me with your words?
Amplified Bible
"How long will you torment and exasperate me And crush me with words?
New American Standard Bible
"How long will you torment me And crush me with words?
World English Bible
"How long will you torment me, And crush me with words?
Geneva Bible (1587)
Howe long will yee vexe my soule, and torment me with wordes?
Legacy Standard Bible
"How long will you torment my soulAnd crush me with words?
Berean Standard Bible
"How long will you torment me and crush me with words?
Contemporary English Version
How long will you torture me with your words?
Complete Jewish Bible
"How long will you go on making me angry, crushing me with words?
Darby Translation
How long will ye vex my soul, and crush me with words?
George Lamsa Translation
How long will you grieve my soul, and make me sick with words?
Lexham English Bible
"How long will you torment me and crush me with words?
Literal Translation
Until when will you torment my soul and break me in pieces with words?
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
How loge wil ye vexe my mynde, & trouble me with wordes?
American Standard Version
How long will ye vex my soul, And break me in pieces with words?
Bible in Basic English
How long will you make my life bitter, crushing me with words?
JPS Old Testament (1917)
How long will ye vex my soul, and crush me with words?
King James Version (1611)
How long will yee vexe my soule, and breake me in pieces with words?
Bishop's Bible (1568)
How long wyll ye vexe my soule, and trouble me with wordes?
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
How long will ye vex my soul, and destroy me with words? only know that the Lord has dealt with me thus.
English Revised Version
How long will ye vex my soul and break me in pieces with words?
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and al to-breken me with wordis?
Update Bible Version
How long will you vex my soul, And break me in pieces with words?
Webster's Bible Translation
How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?
New King James Version
"How long will you torment my soul, And break me in pieces with words?
New Living Translation
"How long will you torture me? How long will you try to crush me with your words?
New Life Bible
"How long will you make me suffer and crush me with words?
New Revised Standard
"How long will you torment me, and break me in pieces with words?
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
How long will ye grieve my soul? or crush me with words?
Douay-Rheims Bible
How long do you afflict my soul, and break me in pieces with words?
Revised Standard Version
"How long will you torment me, and break me in pieces with words?
Young's Literal Translation
Till when do ye afflict my soul, And bruise me with words?
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"How long will you torment me And crush me with words?

Contextual Overview

1 Then Job answered: 2 "How long will you hurt me and crush me with your words? 3 You have insulted me ten times now. You have attacked me without shame! 4 Even if I have sinned, it is my problem, not yours! 5 You want me to look bad to make yourselves look good. You say my troubles are proof that I did wrong. 6 I want you to know it was God who did this. He set this trap for me. 7 I shout, ‘He hurt me!' but get no answer. No one hears my cry for fairness.

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

Genesis 18:4
I will bring some water to wash your feet. You can rest under the trees.
Genesis 19:17
So after the two men brought Lot and his family out of the city, one of the men said, "Now run to save your life! Don't look back at the city, and don't stop anywhere in the valley. Run until you are in the mountains. If you stop, you will be destroyed with the city!"
Genesis 19:21
The angel said to Lot, "Very well, I'll let you do that. I will not destroy that town.
Genesis 19:28
Abraham looked down into the valley toward the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. He saw clouds of smoke rising from the land, like smoke from a furnace.
Genesis 19:29
God destroyed the cities in the valley, but he remembered what Abraham had said. So God sent Lot away from those cities before destroying them.
Acts 16:15
She and all the people living in her house were baptized. Then she invited us into her home. She said, "If you think I am a true believer in the Lord Jesus, come stay in my house." She persuaded us to stay with her.
Hebrews 13:2
Always remember to help people by welcoming them into your home. Some people have done that and have helped 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!


 
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