Job 3:24

Bible in Basic English 1965

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

Cross References

Job 30:16

But now my soul is turned to water in me, days of trouble overtake me:

Job 33:20

He has no desire for food, and his soul is turned away from delicate meat;

Job 6:7

My soul has no desire for such things, they are as disease in my food.

Job 7:19

How long will it be before your eyes are turned away from me, so that I may have a minute's breathing-space?

Psalm 102:9

I have had dust for bread and my drink has been mixed with weeping:

Psalm 32:3

When I kept my mouth shut, my bones were wasted, because of my crying all through the day.

Psalm 38:8

I am feeble and crushed down; I gave a cry like a lion because of the grief in my heart.

Psalm 80:5

You have given them the bread of weeping for food; for their drink you have given them sorrow in great measure.

Isaiah 59:11

We make noises of grief, like bears, and sad sounds like doves: we are looking for our right, but it is not there; for salvation, but it is far from us.

Lamentations 3:8

Even when I send up a cry for help, he keeps my prayer shut out.

1 Samuel 7:6

So they came together to Mizpah, and got water, draining it out before the Lord, and they took no food that day, and they said, We have done evil against the Lord. And Samuel was judge of the children of Israel in Mizpah.