Job 3:24
For my sighing cometh before my bread, and my groanings are poured out like the waters.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.
In Context
23To the man whose way is hidden, and whom God hath hedged in?
25For I feared a fear, and it hath come upon me, and that which I dreaded hath come to me.
Cross References
Job 6:7What my soul refuseth to touch, that is as my loathsome food.
Job 33:20And his life abhorreth bread, and his soul dainty food;
Psalms 32:3When I kept silence, my bones waxed old, through my groaning all the day long.
Psalms 42:3My tears have been my bread day and night, while they say unto me all the day, Where is thy God?
Psalms 102:9For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,
Lamentations 3:8Even when I cry and shout, he shutteth out 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 →