Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

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

New American Standard Bible

“How long will you torment me
And crush me with words?

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

How long will you torment me
and crush me with words?

International Standard Version

"How long do you intend to keep torturing me and trying to break me by what you're saying?

American Standard Version

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

Amplified


“How long will you torment and exasperate me
And crush me with words?

Bible in Basic English

How long will you make my life bitter, crushing me with words?

Darby Translation

How long will ye vex my soul, and crush me with words?

Julia Smith Translation

How long will ye, grieve my soul, and crush me with words?

King James 2000

How long will you torment my soul, and break me in pieces with words?

Lexham Expanded Bible

"{How long} will you torment me and crush me with words?

Modern King James verseion

How long will you torment my soul and break me in pieces with words?

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

"How long will ye vex my mind, and trouble me with words?

NET Bible

"How long will you torment me and crush me with your words?

New Heart English Bible

"How long will you torment me, and crush me with words?

The Emphasized Bible

How long will ye grieve my soul? or crush me with words?

Webster

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

World English Bible

"How long will you torment me, and crush me with words?

Youngs Literal Translation

Till when do ye afflict my soul, And bruise me with words?

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
How long will ye vex
יגה 
Yagah 
Usage: 8

my soul
נפשׁ 
Nephesh 
Usage: 753

and break
דּכא 
Daka' 
Usage: 18

Context Readings

Job's Sixth Speech: A Response To Bildad

1 Then Job answered, and said, 2 How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words? 3 These ten times ye have reproached me. Ye are not ashamed that ye deal hardly with me.


Cross References

Judges 16:16

And it came to pass, when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, that his soul was vexed to death.

Job 8:2

How long will thou speak these things? And [how long] shall the words of thy mouth be [like] a mighty wind?

Job 18:2

How long will ye hunt for words? Consider, and afterwards we will speak.

Job 27:2

As God lives, who has taken away my right, and the Almighty, who has vexed my soul.

Psalm 6:2-3

Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am withered away. O LORD, heal me, for my bones are troubled.

Psalm 13:1

How long, O LORD? Will thou forget me forever? How long will thou hide thy face from me?

Psalm 42:10

As with a sword in my bones, my adversaries reproach me; while they continually say to me, Where is thy God?

Psalm 55:21

His mouth was smooth as butter, but his heart was war. His words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.

Psalm 59:7

Behold, they belch out with their mouth. Swords are in their lips, for [they say], Who hears?

Psalm 64:3

who have whet their tongue like a sword, and have aimed their arrows, even bitter words,

Proverbs 12:18

There is he who speaks rashly 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 those who love it shall eat the fruit of it.

James 3:6-8

And the tongue is a fire, the world of unrighteousness. Thus, the tongue is made to lead among our body-parts, defiling the whole body, and setting the cycle of nature on fire, and being set on fire by hell.

2 Peter 2:7-8

and he rescued righteous Lot, being distressed by the conduct of the lawless in their licentiousness

Revelation 6:10

And they cried out in a great voice, saying, Master, Holy and True, how long do thou not judge and avenge our blood from those who dwell on the earth?

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