Job 3:24
“For my sighing commeth before I eate, and my roarings are powred out like the waters.”
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Job 3:24 Context
22Which reioice exceedingly, and are glad when they can finde the graue? 23Why is light giuen to a man, whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in? 24For my sighing commeth before I eate, and my roarings are powred out like the waters. 25For the thing which I greatly feared is come vpon me, and that which I was afraid of, is come vnto me. 26I was not in safetie, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet: yet trouble came.
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Other Translations for Job 3:24
For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.
- King James Version
"For my groaning comes at the sight of my food, And my cries pour out like water.
- New American Standard Version (1995)
For my sighing cometh before I eat, And my groanings are poured out like water.
- American Standard Version (1901)
In place of my food I have grief, and cries of sorrow come from me like water.
- Basic English Bible
For my sighing cometh before my bread, and my groanings are poured out like the waters.
- Darby Bible
For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.
- Webster's Bible
For my sighing comes before I eat. My groanings are poured out like water.
- World English Bible
For before my food, my sighing cometh, And poured out as waters [are] my roarings.
- Youngs Literal Bible
For my sighing cometh instead of my food, and my roarings are poured out like water.
- Jewish Publication Society Bible
Wesley's Notes for Job 3:24
3:24 Before, &c. - Heb. before the face of my bread, all the time I am eating, I fall into sighing and weeping, because I am obliged to eat, and to support this wretched life, and because of my uninterrupted pains of body and of mind, which do not afford me one quiet moment. Roarings - My loud outcries, more befitting a lion than a man. Poured out - With great abundance, and irresistible violence, and incessant continuance, as waters flow in a river, or as they break the banks, and overflow the ground.