Job 19:2
How long do you afflict my soul, and break me in pieces with words?
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?
In Context
1Then Job answered , and said:
3Behold, these ten times you confound me, and are not ashamed to oppress me.
Cross References
Judges 16:16And when she pressed him much, and continually hung upon him for many days, giving him no time to rest, his soul fainted away, and was wearied even until death.
Job 18:2How long will you throw out words? understand first, and so let us speak.
Job 27:12Behold you all know it, and why do you speak vain things without cause?
Psalms 13:1Unto the end, a psalm for David. How long, O Lord, wilt thou forget me unto the end? how long dost thou turn away thy face from me?
Psalms 55:21God shall hear, and the Eternal shall humble them. For there is no change with them, and they have not feared God:
Psalms 64:3Thou hast protected me from the assembly of the malignant; from the multitude of the workers of iniquity.
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 →