King James Version
Job 19:2 in the King James Version says “How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?” — study this verse from Job chapter 19 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?”
Job 19:2 · KJV
Then Job answered and said,
How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?
These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me. make: or, harden yourselves against me
And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself.
KJV Study — Public Domain
as far (or long, or much) as, whether of space (even unto) or time (during, while, until) or degree (equally with)
“my soul”
H5315properly, a breathing creature, i.e., animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or ment
“and break”
H1792to crumble; transitively, to bruise (literally or figuratively)
“me in pieces with words”
H4405a word; collectively, a discourse; figuratively, a topic
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