Job 3:24
For my sighing commeth before I eate, and my roarings are powred out like the water.
Geneva Bible 1599
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 the light giuen to the man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?
25For the thing I feared, is come vpon me, and the thing that I was afraid of, is come vnto me.
Cross References
Job 6:7Such things as my soule refused to touch, as were sorowes, are my meate.
Job 33:20So that his life causeth him to abhorre bread, and his soule daintie meate.
Psalms 32:3When I helde my tongue, my bones consumed, or when I roared all the day,
Psalms 42:3My teares haue bin my meate day and night, while they dayly say vnto me, Where is thy God?
Psalms 102:9Surely I haue eaten asshes as bread, and mingled my drinke with weeping,
Lamentations 3:8Also when I cry and showte, hee 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 →