Job 19:2

“How long will ye vex my soul, etc.] Which of all vexation is the worst; not only his bones were vexed, but his soul also, as David’s was, (<190602>Psalm 6:2,3). His body was vexed with boils from head to feet; but now his soul was vexed by his friends, and which denotes extreme vexation, a man’s being vexed to his very heart: there are many things vexations to men, especially to good men; they are not only vexed with pains of the body, as others, and with loss of worldly substance; but even all things here below, and the highest enjoyment of them, as wealth, wisdom, honours, and pleasures, are all vanity and vexation of spirit, as they were to Solomon; but more especially truly good men are…”

“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 reply, “how long” they would torture and afflict his soul? Or whether there was on hope that this would ever come to an end! And break me in pieces - Crush me, or bruise me - like breaking any thing in a mortar, or breaking rocks by repeated blows of the hammer. “Noyes.” He says they had crushed him, as if by repeated blows. return to 'Top of Page'”

“How long: Job 8:2, Job 18:2; Psa 13:1; Rev 6:10 vex: Job 27:2; Jdg 16:16; Psa 6:2, Psa 6:3, Psa 42:10; Pe2 2:7, Pe2 2:8 break me: Psa 55:21, Psa 59:7, Psa 64:3; Pro 12:18, Pro 18:21; Jam 3:6-8 Job 19:3”