Job 19:2
How long will ye grieve my soul? or crush me with words?
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?
In Context
1Then responded Job, and said:—
3These ten times, have ye reviled me, Shameless ye wrong me.
Cross References
Judges 16:16And it came to pass, when she urged him with her words continually, and pressed him, that his soul became impatient, unto death;
Job 18:2How long will ye make a perversion of words? Ye should understand, and, afterwards, we could speak.
Job 27:12Lo! ye, have, all of you, seen, Wherefore, then, is it, that ye are utterly without purpose?
Psalms 13:1How long, O Yahweh, wilt thou wholly forget me? How long wilt thou hide thy face from me?
Psalms 55:21Smoother than curds, were [the words of] his mouth, But, war, was [in] his heart,—Softer his words than oil, Yet, they, were drawn swords!
Psalms 64:3Who have sharpened, like a sword, their tongue, Have made ready their arrow—a bitter word;
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 →