Job 3:24

In 11 translations

BSB

I sigh when food is put before me, and my groans pour out like water.

KJV

For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.I eat: Heb. my meat

WEB

For my sighing comes before I eat. My groanings are poured out like water.

ASV

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

LSV

For before my food, my sighing comes, || And my roarings [are] poured out as waters.

YLT

For before my food, my sighing cometh, And poured out as waters [are] my roarings.

DBY

For my sighing cometh before my bread, and my groanings are poured out like the waters.

DRC

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

GNV

For my sighing commeth before I eate, and my roarings are powred out like the water.

JPS

For my sighing cometh instead of my food, and my roarings are poured out like water.

LXXE

For my groaning comes before my food, and I weep being beset with terror.

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WLC

כִּֽי־לִפְנֵ֣י לַ֭חְמִי אַנְחָתִ֣י תָבֹ֑א וַֽיִּתְּכ֥וּ כַ֝מַּ֗יִם שַׁאֲגֹתָֽי׃

LXX-Br

Πρὸ γὰρ τῶν σίτων μου στεναγμὸς ἥκει, δακρύω δὲ ἐγὼ συνεχόμενος φόβῳ.

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Cross-references most cited first

• Psalms 102:9For I have eaten ashes like bread and mixed my drink with tears
• Psalms 80:5You fed them with the bread of tears and made them drink the full measure of their tears.
• Psalms 42:3–4My tears have been my food both day and night, while men ask me all day long, “Where is your God?” These things come to mind as I pour out my soul: how I walked with the multitude, leading the procession to the house…
• Psalms 38:8I am numb and badly crushed; I groan in anguish of heart.
• Psalms 32:3When I kept silent, my bones became brittle from my groaning all day long.
• Psalms 22:1–2My God, my God, why have You forsaken me? Why are You so far from saving me, so far from my words of groaning? I cry out by day, O my God, but You do not answer, and by night, but I have no rest.
• Job 6:7My soul refuses to touch them; they are loathsome food to me.
• Job 7:19Will You never look away from me, or leave me alone to swallow my spittle?
• Job 33:20so that he detests his bread, and his soul loathes his favorite food.
• Lamentations 3:8Even when I cry out and plead for help, He shuts out my prayer.
• Isaiah 59:11We all growl like bears and moan like doves. We hope for justice, but find none, for salvation, but it is far from us.

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