Job 19:2
“How long will you go on tormenting me? How long will you go on crushing me with words?
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?
In Context
3Ten times already you have humiliated me. Aren't you ashamed for treating me so badly?
Cross References
Judges 16:16She nagged and complained all the time, pestering him until he wanted to die.
Job 18:2“How long will you go on talking, hunting for the right words to say? Talk sense if you want us to reply!
Job 27:12If all of you have recognized this, why do you talk such vain nonsense?
Psalms 13:1How long, Lord, are you going to forget me? Forever? How long will you turn away from me?
Psalms 55:21What he says is as smooth as butter, but inside he plans war; his words are as soothing as oil, but they cut like sharp swords.
Psalms 64:3What they say cuts like swords; they fire off poisonous words like arrows.
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 →