Job 19:2

Job's Sixth Speech: A Response To Bildad

¹ Then Job answered and said, ² 
“How long will you torment and exasperate me
And crush me with words?
³
“These ten times you have insulted me;
You are not ashamed to wrong me [and harden your hearts against me].

How Long

Job

Judges 16:16

When she pressured him day after day with her words and pleaded with him, he was annoyed to death.

Job 8:2

“How long will you say these things?
And will the words of your mouth be a mighty wind?

Job 18:2

“How long will you hunt for words and continue these speeches?
Do some clear thinking and show understanding and then we can talk.

Job 27:2

“As God lives, who has taken away my right and denied me justice,
And the Almighty, who has caused bitterness and grief for my soul,

Psalm 6:2-3

Have mercy on me and be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am weak (faint, frail);
Heal me, O Lord, for my bones are dismayed and anguished.

Psalm 13:1

How long, O Lord? Will You forget me forever?
How long will You hide Your face from me?

Psalm 42:10

As a crushing of my bones [with a sword], my adversaries taunt me,
While they say continually to me, “Where is your God?”

Psalm 55:21

The words of his mouth were smoother than butter,
But his heart was hostile;
His words were softer than oil,
Yet they were drawn swords.

Psalm 59:7

Look how they belch out [insults] with their mouths;
Swords [of sarcasm, ridicule, slander, and lies] are in their lips,
For they say, “Who hears us?”

Psalm 64:3

Who have sharpened their tongues like a sword.
They aim venomous words as arrows,

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 and indulge it will eat its fruit and bear the consequences of their words.

James 3:6-8

And the tongue is [in a sense] a fire, the very world of injustice and unrighteousness; the tongue is set among our members as that which contaminates the entire body, and sets on fire the course of our life [the cycle of man’s existence], and is itself set on fire by hell (Gehenna).

2 Peter 2:7-8

and if He rescued righteous Lot, who was tormented by the immoral conduct of unprincipled and ungodly men

Revelation 6:10

They cried in a loud voice, saying, “O Lord, holy and true, how long now before You will sit in judgment and avenge our blood on those [unregenerate ones] who dwell on the earth?”