Job 3:24
Before I eat, I sigh; and like overflowing waters, so is my howl,
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.
In Context
23to a man whose way is hidden and whom God has surrounded with darkness?
25for the terror that I feared has happened to me, and so has the dread befallen me.
Cross References
Job 6:7The things that my soul was unwilling to touch before, now, because of anguish, are my foods.
Job 33:20Bread becomes abominable to him in his life, and, to his soul, the meat which before he desired.
Psalms 32:3Sing to him a new song. Sing psalms to him skillfully, with loud exclamation.
Psalms 42:3Send forth your light and your truth. They have guided me and led me, to your holy mountain and into your tabernacles.
Psalms 102:9He will not be angry forever, and he will not threaten for eternity.
Lamentations 3:8GHIMEL. Yet even when I cry out and beg, he excludes my prayer.
Matthew Henry on Job 3:21-26
20 Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul; 21 Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures; 22 Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave? 23 Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in? 24 For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters. 25 For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.… Read the whole commentary →