Charles Ellicott Commentary Job 19:2

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

How long? —Job begins as Bildad himself had begun in both cases. His last speech had been so offensive and unfeeling that Job may well ask, “How long will you vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?” Moreover, Bildad had infused a kind of personal malice into his charges, which Job felt most keenly, so that he is constrained to ask, “If indeed I have erred, does not my error remain with myself? I alone suffer for it, and you do not even sympathize or suffer with me.”