Job 19:2

American Standard Version (1901)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Judg 16:16 : 16 And it came to pass, when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, that his soul was vexed unto death.
  • Job 8:2 : 2 How long wilt thou speak these things? And [how long] shall the words of thy mouth be [like] a mighty wind?
  • Job 18:2 : 2 How long will ye hunt for words? Consider, and afterwards we will speak.
  • Job 27:2 : 2 As God liveth, who hath taken away my right, And the Almighty, who hath vexed my soul:
  • Ps 6:2-3 : 2 Have mercy upon me, O Jehovah; for I am withered away: O Jehovah, heal me; for my bones are troubled. 3 My soul also is sore troubled: And thou, O Jehovah, how long?
  • Ps 13:1 : 1 [For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David]. How long, O Jehovah? wilt thou forget me for ever? How long wilt thou hide thy face from me?
  • Ps 42:10 : 10 As with a sword in my bones, mine adversaries reproach me, While they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?
  • Ps 55:21 : 21 His mouth was smooth as butter, But his heart was war: His words were softer than oil, Yet were they drawn swords.
  • Ps 59:7 : 7 Behold, they belch out with their mouth; Swords are in their lips: For who, [say they], doth hear?
  • Ps 64:3 : 3 Who have whet their tongue like a sword, And have aimed their arrows, even bitter words,
  • Prov 12:18 : 18 There is that speaketh rashly like the piercings of a sword; But the tongue of the wise is health.
  • Prov 18:21 : 21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue; And they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
  • Jas 3:6-8 : 6 And the tongue is a fire: the world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the wheel of nature, and is set on fire by hell. 7 For every kind of beasts and birds, of creeping things and things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed by mankind. 8 But the tongue can no man tame; [it is] a restless evil, [it is] full of deadly poison.
  • 2 Pet 2:7-8 : 7 and delivered righteous Lot, sore distressed by the lascivious life of the wicked 8 (for that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed [his] righteous soul from day to day with [their] lawless deeds):
  • Rev 6:10 : 10 and they cried with a great voice, saying, How long, O Master, the holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?

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  • 1Then Job answered and said,

  • 3These ten times have ye reproached me: Ye are not ashamed that ye deal hardly with me.

  • Job 18:2-3
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    2How long will ye hunt for words? Consider, and afterwards we will speak.

    3Wherefore are we counted as beasts, [And] are become unclean in your sight?

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    3My soul also is sore troubled: And thou, O Jehovah, how long?

  • Job 9:17-18
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    17For he breaketh me with a tempest, And multiplieth my wounds without cause.

    18He will not suffer me to take my breath, But filleth me with bitterness.

  • Job 27:1-2
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    1And Job again took up his parable, and said,

    2As God liveth, who hath taken away my right, And the Almighty, who hath vexed my soul:

  • 19How long wilt thou not look away from me, Nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?

  • Job 16:1-7
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    1Then Job answered and said,

    2I have heard many such things: Miserable comforters are ye all.

    3Shall vain words have an end? Or what provoketh thee that thou answerest?

    4I also could speak as ye do; If your soul were in my soul's stead, I could join words together against you, And shake my head at you.

    5[ But] I would strengthen you with my mouth, And the solace of my lips would assuage [your grief] .

    6Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged; And though I forbear, what am I eased?

    7But now he hath made me weary: Thou hast made desolate all my company.

  • 2How long wilt thou speak these things? And [how long] shall the words of thy mouth be [like] a mighty wind?

  • 2How long shall I take counsel in my soul, Having sorrow in my heart all the day? How long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?

  • 11Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

  • 14He breaketh me with breach upon breach; He runneth upon me like a giant.

  • 22Why do ye persecute me as God, And are not satisfied with my flesh?

  • Lam 3:4-5
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    4My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.

    5He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.

  • 4As for me, is my complaint to man? And why should I not be impatient?

  • Job 23:1-2
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    1Then Job answered and said,

    2Even to-day is my complaint rebellious: My stroke is heavier than my groaning.

  • Job 10:1-2
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    1My soul is weary of my life; I will give free course to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

    2I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; Show me wherefore thou contendest with me.

  • 13That against God thou turnest thy spirit, And lettest words go out of thy mouth?

  • 16He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones; he hath covered me with ashes.

  • 5All the day long they wrest my words: All their thoughts are against me for evil.

  • 11He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he hath made me desolate.

  • 26Do ye think to reprove words, Seeing that the speeches of one that is desperate are as wind?

  • 5If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, And plead against me my reproach;

  • Ps 94:4-5
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    4They prate, they speak arrogantly: All the workers of iniquity boast themselves.

    5They break in pieces thy people, O Jehovah, And afflict thy heritage.

  • 18Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuseth to be healed? wilt thou indeed be unto me as a deceitful [brook], as waters that fail?

  • 2And Job answered and said:

  • Job 16:9-10
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    9He hath torn me in his wrath, and persecuted me; He hath gnashed upon me with his teeth: Mine adversary sharpeneth his eyes upon me.

    10They have gaped upon me with their mouth; They have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully: They gather themselves together against me.

  • 2Oh that my vexation were but weighed, And all my calamity laid in the balances!

  • Job 21:1-2
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    1Then Job answered and said,

    2Hear diligently my speech; And let this be your consolations.

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    5Then will he speak unto them in his wrath, And vex them in his sore displeasure:

  • 19Who is he that will contend with me? For then would I hold my peace and give up the ghost.

  • 12I was at ease, and he brake me asunder; Yea, he hath taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces: He hath also set me up for his mark.

  • 10Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thy hand.

  • 15What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done it: I shall go softly all my years because of the bitterness of my soul.

  • 3How long will ye set upon a man, That ye may slay [him], all of you, Like a leaning wall, like a tottering fence?