Job 19:2

How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
vex	תּוֹגְי֣וּן tog.Yun	H3013	to grieve · verb, hiphil imperfect, 2nd person masculine plural + paragogic nun
soul	נַפְשִׁ֑י naf.Shi	H5315	properly · noun, common feminine singular construct + pronominal suffix
break	וּֽתְדַכְּאוּנַ֥נִי u.te.da.ke.'u.Na.ni	H1792	to crumble · conjunction + verb, piel, 2nd person masculine plural + pronominal suffix
words	בְמִלִּֽים ve.mi.Lim	H4405	a word · preposition + noun, common masculine plural absolute

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Cross-references

Judges 16:16 And it came to pass, when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, so that his soul was vexed unto death;
Job 8:2 How long wilt thou speak these things? and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind?
Job 18:2 How long will it be ere ye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak.
Job 27:2 As God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment; and the Almighty, who hath vexed my soul;
Psalms 6:2-3 Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I am weak: O LORD, heal me; for my bones are vexed.
Psalms 13:1 How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?
Psalms 42:10 As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where is thy God?
Psalms 55:21 The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart: his words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Job 19:1-7

Job's friends had passed a very severe censure upon him as a wicked man because he was so grievously afflicted; now here he tells them how ill he took it to be so censured. Bildad had twice begun with a How long (Job 8:2, Job 18:2), and therefore Job, being now to answer him particularly, begins with a How long too, Job 19:2. What is not liked is commonly thought long; but Job had more reason to think those long who assaulted him than they had to think him long who only vindicated himself. Better cause may be shown for defending ourselves, if we have right on our side, than for offending our brethren, though we have right on our side. Now observe here, I. How he describes their unkindness to…

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John Gill on Job 19:2

How long will ye vex my soul,.... Which of all vexation is the worst; not only his bones were vexed, but his soul also, as David's was, Psalm 6:2. His body was vexed with boils from head to feet; but now his soul was vexed by his friends, and which denotes extreme vexation, a man's being vexed to his very heart: there are many things vexations to men, especially to good men; they are not only vexed with pains of the body, as others, and with loss of worldly substance; but even all things here below, and the highest enjoyment of them, as wealth, wisdom, honours, and pleasures, are all vanity and vexation of spirit, as they were to Solomon; but more especially truly good men are vexed with the…

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Keil & Delitzsch on Job 19:1-6

1 Then began Job, and said: 2 How long will ye vex my soul, And crush me with your words? 3 These ten times have ye reproached me; Without being ashamed ye astound me. 4 And if I have really erred, My error rests with myself. 5 If ye will really magnify yourselves against me, And prove my reproach to me: 6 Know then that Eloah hath wronged me, And hath compassed me with His net. This controversy is torture to Job's spirit; enduring in himself unutterable agony, both bodily and spiritually, and in addition stretched upon the rack by the three friends with their united strength, he begins his answer with a well-justified quousque tandem. תּגיוּן (Norzi: תּוגיוּן) is fut. energicum from הוּגה (…

The Church Fathers

"You annihilate me by your speeches:" you discourage me, you who should console me. "Know that God has treated me so. It is in his presence that I must be convinced of sin, and not before men.
— Augustine of Hippo, ANNOTATIONS ON THE BOOK OF JOB (tr. J. Litteral, draft)

How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words? HISTORICAL INTERPRETATION The sayings of the holy man, as we have already often said, are to be understood sometimes in his own person, sometimes in the voice of the Head, and sometimes in a figure of the Church Universal. Now the soul of the righteous is deeply distressed, when those persons launch severe sentences against the good, who have not learned to lead good lives, and by the words of the mouth claim righteousness to themselves, to which in practice they are enemies. Whence to the friends of blessed Job, who, as we have already often said, bear a type of heretics, himself rightly answers, How long will ye vex my soul, and wear me with words? For good men are 'worn' with the words of the wicked, when those swell out against them in words of the lips, who lie low either in a corrupt faith, or in bad habits.
— Gregory the Dialogist, Morals on the Book of Job, Book XIV

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Job 19:1-7

John Gill on Job 19:2

Keil & Delitzsch on Job 19:1-6

The Church Fathers

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Job 19:1-7

John Gill on Job 19:2

Keil & Delitzsch on Job 19:1-6

The Church Fathers

Rashi on Job 19:2