# How long will you make me suffer and break me into pieces with words?

Job uses this question to complain about how his friends are treating him. Alternate translation: "Stop making me suffer and breaking me into pieces with words." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion]])

# break me into pieces with words

Job uses this image to say that their words make him feel very sad and hopeless. Alternate translation: "torment me with your words" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])