Job 19:2 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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Chapter 19

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²How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?

Job 19:2 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Peter 2:7-8
And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked: …
James 3:6-8
And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell. …
Revelation 6:10
And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?
Job 27:2
As God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment; and the Almighty, who hath vexed my soul;
Job 18:2
How long will it be ere ye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak.

Topics

Accusation, False Afflictions and Adversities Bigotry Intolerance, Religious Martyrdom Persecution Suffering

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 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; 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…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 2)

SECOND SERIES. Job 19:1-29. Job’s Reply to Bildad. 2. How long, &c.--retorting Bildad’s words (Job 18:2). Admitting the punishment to be deserved, is it kind thus ever to be harping on this to the sufferer? And yet even this they have not yet proved.