Job 19:2
How long will you afflict my soul and wear me down with words?
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?
In Context
3So, ten times you confound me and are not ashamed to oppress me.
Cross References
Judges 16:16And when she had been very troublesome to him, and over many days had continually stayed nearby, giving him no time to rest, his soul was faint, and he was weary, even unto death.
Job 18:2How long will you throw around words? Understand first, and then let us speak.
Job 27:12Behold, you know all this, and so why do you speak vain things without a reason?
Psalms 13:1Unto the end. A Psalm of David. The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They were corrupted, and they have become abominable in their studies. There is no one who does good; there is not even one.
Psalms 64:3Hear my prayer: all flesh will come to you.
Matthew Henry on Job 19:2-8
The Reply of Job to Bildad. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Then Job answered and said, 2 How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words? 3 These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me. 4 And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself. 5 If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach: 6 Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net. 7 Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not… Read the whole commentary →