Albert Barnes Commentary Job 19:2

Albert Barnes Commentary

Job 19:2

1798–1870
Presbyterian
Albert Barnes
Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes Commentary

Job 19:2

1798–1870
Presbyterian
SCRIPTURE

"How long will ye vex my soul, And break me in pieces with words?" — Job 19:2 (ASV)

How long will ye vex my soul? - Perhaps intending to reply to the taunting speech of Bildad (Job 18:2). “He” had asked, “how long it would be before Job would make an end of empty talk?” “Job” asks, in reply, “how long” they would torture and afflict his soul, or whether there was any hope that this would ever come to an end!

And break me in pieces - Crush me, or bruise me—like breaking anything in a mortar, or breaking rocks by repeated blows of the hammer. “Noyes.” He says they had crushed him, as if by repeated blows.