Job 3:24 “I sigh when food is put before me, and my groans pour out like water.”

Job 3:24

I sigh when food is put before me, and my groans pour out like water.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.

World English Bible

For my sighing comes before I eat. My groanings are poured out like water.

American Standard Version

For my sighing cometh before I eat, And my groanings are poured out like water.

Geneva Bible 1599

For my sighing commeth before I eate, and my roarings are powred out like the water.

Darby Translation

For my sighing cometh before my bread, and my groanings are poured out like the waters.

Young's Literal Translation

For before my food, my sighing cometh, And poured out as waters [are] my roarings.

Bible in Basic English

In place of my food I have grief, and cries of sorrow come from me like water.

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Cross references

“my sighing”

Psalm 102:9 Psalm 80:5 Job 7:19

Psalm 102:9 · BSB

For I have eaten ashes like bread and mixed my drink with tears

Psalm 80:5 · BSB

You fed them with the bread of tears and made them drink the full measure of their tears.

Job 7:19 · BSB

Will You never look away from me, or leave me alone to swallow my spittle?

“my roarings”

Psalm 38:8 Psalm 32:3 Isaiah 59:11 Lamentations 3:8 Psalm 22:1 Psalm 22:2

Psalm 38:8 · BSB

I am numb and badly crushed; I groan in anguish of heart.

Psalm 32:3 · BSB

When I kept silent, my bones became brittle from my groaning all day long.

Isaiah 59:11 · BSB

We all growl like bears and moan like doves. We hope for justice, but find none, for salvation, but it is far from us.

Lamentations 3:8 · BSB

Even when I cry out and plead for help, He shuts out my prayer.

Psalm 22:1 · BSB

My God, my God, why have You forsaken me? Why are You so far from saving me, so far from my words of groaning?

Psalm 22:2 · BSB

I cry out by day, O my God, but You do not answer, and by night, but I have no rest.

Also

Psalm 42:3–4 Job 6:7 Job 33:20

Psalm 42:3–4 · BSB

My tears have been my food both day and night, while men ask me all day long, “Where is your God?”

Job 6:7 · BSB

My soul refuses to touch them; they are loathsome food to me.

Job 33:20 · BSB

so that he detests his bread, and his soul loathes his favorite food.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

23Why is life given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?

25For the thing I feared has overtaken me, and what I dreaded has befallen me.

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