Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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

Bible References

Vex

Job 27:2
“As God lives, who has taken away my right,
And the Almighty, who has embittered my soul,
Judges 16:16
It came about when she pressed him daily with her words and urged him, that his soul was annoyed to death.
Psalm 6:2
Be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am pining away;
Heal me, O Lord, for my bones are dismayed.
Psalm 42:10
As a shattering of my bones, my adversaries revile me,
While they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”
2 Peter 2:7
and if He rescued righteous Lot, oppressed by the sensual conduct of unprincipled men

Break me

Psalm 55:21
His speech was smoother than butter,
But his heart was war;
His words were softer than oil,
Yet they were drawn swords.
Psalm 59:7
Behold, they belch forth with their mouth;
Swords are in their lips,
For, they say, “Who hears?”
Psalm 64:3
Who have sharpened their tongue like a sword.
They aimed bitter speech as their arrow,
Proverbs 12:18
There is one who speaks rashly like the thrusts of a sword,
But the tongue of the wise brings healing.
Proverbs 18:21
Death and life are in the power of the tongue,
And those who love it will eat its fruit.
James 3:6
And the tongue is a fire, the very world of iniquity; the tongue is set among our members as that which defiles the entire body, and sets on fire the course of our life, and is set on fire by hell.