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 liveth, who hath taken away my right, and the Almighty, who hath embittered my soul,
Judges 16:16
And when she pressed him hard with her words day after day, and urged him, his soul was vexed to death.
Psalm 6:2
Be gracious unto me, Jehovah, for I am withered; Jehovah, heal me, for my bones tremble.
Psalm 42:10
As with a crushing in my bones mine adversaries reproach me, while they say unto me all the day, Where is thy God?
2 Peter 2:7
and saved righteous Lot, distressed with the abandoned conversation of the godless,

Break me

Psalm 55:21
Smooth were the milky words of his mouth, but his heart was war; his words were softer than oil, yet are they drawn swords.
Psalm 59:7
Behold, they belch out with their mouth; swords are in their lips: for who say they doth hear?
Psalm 64:3
Who have sharpened their tongue like a sword, and have aimed their arrow, a bitter word;
Proverbs 12:18
There is that babbleth like the piercings of a sword; but the tongue of the wise is health.
Proverbs 18:21
Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
James 3:6
and the tongue is fire, the world of unrighteousness; the tongue is set in our members, the defiler of the whole body, and which sets fire to the course of nature, and is set on fire of hell.