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Job 19:2

Job 19:2
How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

These ten times have ye reproached me,.... Referring not to ten sections or paragraphs, in which they had done it, as Jarchi; or to the five speeches his friends, in which their reproaches were…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

How long will ye vex my soul? - Perhaps designing to reply to the taunting speech of Bildad; Job 18:2. “He” had asked “how long it would be ere Job would make an end of empty talk?” “Job” asks, in…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Job 19:1-7

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…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

Job 19:2-5

Job, forsaken of God and men, and without hope in this life, rises to the assurance that God will yet appear to vindicate him, and that his eyes shall see him on his side in joy

2 5. Job expresses his…