Job 19:2

King James 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

Referenced Verses

• 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{H8802)} reproach{H8765)} me; while they say{H8800)} daily unto me, Where is thy God?
• Ps 55:21 : 21 The words of his mouth were smoother{H8804)} than butter, but war was in his heart: his words were softer{H8804)} than oil, yet were they drawn swords.
• Ps 59:7 : 7 Behold, they belch out{H8686)} with their mouth: swords are in their lips: for who, say they, doth hear{H8802)}?
• Ps 64:3 : 3 Who whet{H8804)} their tongue like a sword, and bend{H8804)} 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?