Job 19:2

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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

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  • Judg 16:16 : 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 : 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 : 2 How long [will it be ere] ye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak.
  • Job 27:2 : 2 [As] God liveth, [who] hath taken away my judgment; and the Almighty, [who] hath vexed my soul;
  • Ps 6:2-3 : 2 Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I [am] weak: O LORD, heal me; for my bones are vexed. 3 My soul is also sore vexed: but thou, O LORD, how long?
  • Ps 13:1 : 1 ¶ To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?
  • Ps 42:10 : 10 [As] with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where [is] thy God?
  • Ps 55:21 : 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.
  • 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 whet their tongue like a sword, [and] bend [their bows to shoot] their arrows, [even] bitter words:
  • Prov 12:18 : 18 ¶ There is that speaketh 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, 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. 7 For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind: 8 But the tongue can no man tame; [it is] an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
  • 2 Pet 2:7-8 : 7 ¶ And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation 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] unlawful deeds;)
  • Rev 6:10 : 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?

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  • 1¶ Then Job answered and said,

  • 3These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed [that] ye make yourselves strange to me.

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    2How long [will it be ere] ye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak.

    3Wherefore are we counted as beasts, [and] reputed vile in your sight?

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    3My soul is also sore vexed: but thou, O LORD, how long?

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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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    1¶ Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,

    2[As] God liveth, [who] hath taken away my judgment; and the Almighty, [who] hath vexed my soul;

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    1¶ Then Job answered and said,

    2I have heard many such things: miserable comforters [are] ye all.

    3Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?

    4I also could speak as ye [do]: if your soul were in my soul's stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you.

    5[But] I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage [your grief].

    6¶ Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: 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 strong wind?

  • 2How long shall I take counsel in my soul, [having] sorrow in my heart daily? 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?

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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 if [it were so], why should not my spirit be troubled?

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

    2Even to day [is] my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.

  • Job 10:1-2
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    1¶ My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

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

  • 13That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest [such] words go out of thy mouth?

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

  • 5Every day 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 imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, [which are] as wind?

  • 5If indeed ye will magnify [yourselves] against me, and plead against me my reproach:

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    4[How long] shall they utter [and] speak hard things? [and] all the workers of iniquity boast themselves?

    5They break in pieces thy people, O LORD, and afflict thine heritage.

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

  • 2And Job spake, and said,

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    9He teareth [me] in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me.

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

  • 2Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!

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    1¶ But Job answered and said,

    2Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations.

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    5Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure.

  • 19Who [is] he [that] will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.

  • 12I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken [me] by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.

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

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

  • 3How long will ye imagine mischief against a man? ye shall be slain all of you: as a bowing wall [shall ye be, and as] a tottering fence.