Job 3:24
For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.
Context
This verse from Job Chapter 3 connects to 10 cross-references. Job breaks his silence with a lament cursing the day of his birth and the night of his conception. He questions why light is given to those in misery and longs for the peace of Sheol where the weary are …
Other Translations
For my sighing cometh before I eat, And my groanings are poured out like water.
For before my food, my sighing cometh, And poured out as waters <FI>are<Fi> my roarings.
In place of my food I have grief, and cries of sorrow come from me like water.
Cross References
We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, …
Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
So that his life abhorreth bread, and his soul dainty meat.
How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?
The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat.
For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,
Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.
When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I …
My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?
I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.