2How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?
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And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked: …
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. …
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?
As God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment; and the Almighty, who hath vexed my soul;
How long will it be ere ye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak.
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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 th…
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