Job 3:24 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

²⁴ For my sighing comes as 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,

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁴ 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 his life loathes bread, and his appetite dainty food.

Job 6:7

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

Job 7:19

How long wilt thou not look away from me, nor let me alone till I swallow my spittle?

Psalm 102:9

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

Psalm 32:3

When I declared not my sin, 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

Thou hast fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in full measure.

Isaiah 59:11

We all growl like bears, we moan and moan like doves; we look 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, and fasted on that day, and said there, “We have sinned against the Lord.” And Samuel judged the people of Israel at Mizpah.