Job 3:24
For my groaning comes before my food, and I weep being beset with terror.
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.
In Context
23Death is rest to such a man, for God has hedged him in.
25For the terror of which I meditated has come upon me, and that which I had feared has befallen me.
Cross References
Job 6:7For my wrath cannot cease; for I perceive my food as the smell of a lion to be loathsome.
Job 33:20And he shall not be able to take any food, though his soul shall desire meat;
Psalms 32:3Sing to him a new song; play skilfully with a loud noise.
Psalms 42:3Send forth thy light and thy truth: they have led me, and brought me to thy holy mountain, and to thy tabernacles.
Psalms 102:9He will not be always angry; neither will he be wrathful for ever.
Lamentations 3:8Gimel. Yea, though I cry and shout, he shuts 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 →