Job 3:24
For before my food cometh my groaning, and like the water are poured forth my loud complaints.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.
In Context
23[Why is light given] to a man whose way is hidden, and around whom God hath placed a fence?
25Because what I greatly dreaded is come upon me, and what I apprehended is come unto me.
Cross References
Job 6:7My soul refuseth to touch them: they are unto me like disgusting food.
Job 33:20So that his inclination abhorreth bread, and his soul, the most agreeable food.
Psalms 32:3When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my crying all the day.
Psalms 42:3(42:4) My tears have been my food day and night; because men say unto me all the day, Where is thy God?
Psalms 102:9(102:10) For ashes do I eat like bread, and my drink I mingle with weeping;
Lamentations 3:8Also when I cry aloud and make entreaty, 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 →