Job 19:2

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

‫עַד־אָ֭נָה תּוֹגְי֣וּן נַפְשִׁ֑י וּֽתְדַכּאוּנַ֥נִי בְמִלִּֽים׃‬

Transliteration

ʿad-ʾānāh tōgyūn napšî ū-tədakkəʾūnanî bə-millîm

Grammar Details

*ʿad-ʾānāh*: preposition + interrogative - until when/how long
*tōgyūn*: hiphil imperfect, 2nd masculine plural - you afflict/cause grief
*napšî*: noun common feminine singular construct + 1st person singular suffix - my soul/self
*ū-tədakkəʾūnanî*: waw conjunction + piel imperfect, 2nd masculine plural + 1st person singular suffix - and you crush me
*bə-millîm*: preposition + noun common feminine plural - with words

Word Meanings

*tōgyūn*: to afflict/grieve/cause sorrow
*nepeš*: soul/life/self/person/desire
*dākāʾ*: to crush/break/bruise
*millîm*: words/speech

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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A highly literal, word-for-word translation (ASV, 1901) augmented with Strong's numbering to connect English words to underlying Hebrew and Greek terms for study.

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Divine name rendering: Frequently renders the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah in the Old Testament, following ASV tradition.
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Strong's numbers are a concordance index, not full lexical definitions

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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 {G3779} 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, {G5037} 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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