Job 3:24
For, in the face of my food, my sighing, cometh in, and, poured out like the water, are my groans:
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.
In Context
23To a man, whose way is concealed, And GOD hath straitly enclosed him?
25For, a dread, I dreaded, and it hath come upon me, and, that from which I shrank, hath overtaken me.
Cross References
Job 6:7My soul hath refused to touch, Those things, are like disease in my food.
Job 33:20So that his life maketh loathsome [his] food, and his soul, dainty meat;
Psalms 32:3When I kept silence, my bones became worn out, Through my groaning all the day;
Psalms 42:3My tears have been my food day and night, While it hath been said unto me all the day, Where is thy God?
Psalms 102:9For, ashes—like bread, have I eaten, And, my drink—with my tears, have I mingled;
Lamentations 3:8Yea, when I make outcry and implore, he hath shut 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 →