Job 3:24
My groans are the bread I eat; my raging tears are the water I drink.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.
In Context
23Why is light given to someone who doesn't know where they're going, someone God has fenced in?
25For all that I feared has happened to me; everything that I dreaded has come upon me.
Cross References
Job 6:7I just can't touch any food—even the thought makes me feel sick!
Job 33:20They have no desire to eat; they do not even want their favorite dishes.
Psalms 32:3When I kept quiet, my body fell apart as I groaned in distress all day long.
Psalms 42:3My tears have been my only food, day and night, while people ask me all day long, “Where is your God?”
Psalms 102:9Ashes are the food I eat; my tears drip into my drink,
Lamentations 3:8Even when I keep on crying out for help, he refuses to listen to 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 →