Job 3:24

For my groaning comes before my food, 1 And I weep being beset with terror. 1

Updated 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, 1 For God has hedged him in. 1

25For the terror of which I meditated has come upon me, 1 And that which I had feared has befallen me. 1

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Cross References

Job 6:7For my wrath cannot cease; 1 For I perceive my food as the smell of a lion to be loathsome. 1

Job 33:20And he shall not be able to take any food, 1 Though his soul shall desire meat; 1

Psalms 32:3Sing to him a new song; 1 Play skillfully with a loud noise. 1

Psalms 42:3Send forth thy light and thy truth: 1 They have led me, and brought me to thy holy mountain, 1 And to thy tabernacles. 1

Psalms 102:9He will not be always angry; 1 Neither will he be wrathful forever. 1

Lamentations 3:8Yea, though I cry and shout, 1 He shuts out my prayer. 1

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 →

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