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

²⁴ For my sighing comes like my bread, and my groanings are poured out like water.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁴ For my sighing cometh before I eat, And my roarings are poured out like the waters.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁴ For my sighing comes before my food, and my groanings are poured out like water.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁴ For my sighing cometh before I eat, And my groanings are poured out like water.

Common English Bible

²⁴ My groans become my bread; my roars pour out like water.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁴ Before I eat, I sigh; and like overflowing waters, so is my howl,

Job 3:24 Cross References

Psalm 102:9

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

Psalm 80:5

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

Psalm 38:8

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

Lamentations 3:8

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

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.

Psalm 32:3

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

Job 33:20

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

Job 7:19

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

Job 6:7

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

Job 30:16

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

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.