Job 19:2
“How long will you torment me and crush me with your words?
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?
In Context
3Ten times now you have reproached me; you shamelessly mistreat me.
Cross References
Judges 16:16Finally, after she had pressed him daily with her words and pleaded until he was sick to death,
Job 18:2“How long until you end these speeches? Show some sense, and then we can talk.
Job 27:12Surely all of you have seen it for yourselves. Why then do you keep up this empty talk?
Psalms 13:1For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. How long, O LORD? Will You forget me forever? How long will You hide Your face from me?
Psalms 55:21His speech is smooth as butter, but war is in his heart. His words are softer than oil, yet they are swords unsheathed.
Psalms 64:3who sharpen their tongues like swords and aim their bitter 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 →