Job 3:24
For before my food, my sighing cometh, And poured out as waters [are] my roarings.
Young's Literal Translation
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 hath been hidden, And whom God doth shut up?
25For a fear I feared and it meeteth me, And what I was afraid of doth come to me.
Cross References
Job 6:7My soul is refusing to touch! They [are] as my sickening food.
Job 33:20And his life hath nauseated bread, And his soul desirable food.
Psalms 32:3When I have kept silence, become old have my bones, Through my roaring all the day.
Psalms 42:3My tear hath been to me bread day and night, In their saying unto me all the day, 'Where [is] thy God?'
Psalms 102:9Because ashes as bread I have eaten, And my drink with weeping have mingled,
Lamentations 3:8Also when I call and cry out, 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 →