2 Peter 2:8
(For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, p*vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;)
(For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;)
(βλέμματι γὰρ καὶ ἀκοῇ ὁ δίκαιος, ἐγκατοικῶν ἐν αὐτοῖς, ἡμέραν ἐξ ἡμέρας ψυχὴν δικαίαν ἀνόμοις ἔργοις ἐβασάνιζεν)·
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Psalms 119:53 Horror hath taken hold upon me because of the wicked that forsake thy law.
Psalms 119:136 Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law.
Psalms 119:158 I beheld the transgressors, and was grieved; because they kept not thy word.
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vexed-troubled.
their wickedness was so open and shameless, that he not only heard the report of it, but saw them commit it, Isa 3:9.
Greek, tormented, i.e. extremely afflicted and troubled his own soul, provoking himself to godly sorrow at the sight and fame of their unlawful deeds. His grief was voluntary, and he active in it; the like is said of Christ, on occasion of Lazarus’s death, Joh 11:33, where the margin reads, he troubled himself.