Job 3:24 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

For my sighing comes like my bread, and my groanings are poured out like water.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

For my sighing comes before my food, and my groanings are poured out like water.

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

My groans become my bread; my roars pour out like water.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Before I eat, I sigh; and like overflowing waters, so is my howl,

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Before I eat, I sigh: and as overflowing waters, so is my roaring.

Job 3:24 Cross References

Job 30:16

“And now my soul is poured out within me; days of affliction have taken hold of me.

Job 33:20

so that their lives loathe bread and their appetites dainty food.

Job 6:7

My appetite refuses to touch them; they are like food that is loathsome to me.

Job 7:19

Will you not look away from me for a while, let me alone until I swallow my spittle?

Psalm 102:9

Indeed, I eat ashes like bread and mingle tears with my drink,

Psalm 32:3

While I kept silent, my body wasted away through my groaning all day long.

Psalm 38:8

I am utterly spent and crushed; I groan because of the tumult of my heart.

Psalm 80:5

You have fed them with the bread of tears and given them tears to drink in full measure.

Isaiah 59:11

We all growl like bears; like doves we moan mournfully. We wait for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far from us.

Lamentations 3:8

though I call and cry for help, he shuts out my prayer;

1 Samuel 7:6

So they gathered at Mizpah and drew water and poured it out before the Lord. They fasted that day and said, “We have sinned against the Lord.” And Samuel judged the Israelites at Mizpah.