Job 3:24

24 For sighing has become my daily food; my groans pour out like water.

Job 3:24 in Other Translations

KJV
24 For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.
ESV
24 For my sighing comes instead of my bread, and my groanings are poured out like water.
NLT
24 I cannot eat for sighing; my groans pour out like water.
MSG
24 "Instead of bread I get groans for my supper, then leave the table and vomit my anguish.
CSB
24 I sigh when food is [put] before me, and my groans pour out like water.

Job 3:24 In-Context

22 who are filled with gladness and rejoice when they reach the grave?
23 Why is life given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?
24 For sighing has become my daily food; my groans pour out like water.
25 What I feared has come upon me; what I dreaded has happened to me.
26 I have no peace, no quietness; I have no rest, but only turmoil.”

Cross References 4

  • 1. Psalms 5:1; Psalms 38:9; Isaiah 35:10
  • 2. Job 6:7; Job 33:20; Psalms 107:18
  • 3. Psalms 22:1; Psalms 32:3; Psalms 38:8
  • 4. 1 Samuel 1:15; Job 30:16; Psalms 6:6; Psalms 22:14; Psalms 42:3,4; Psalms 80:5; Isaiah 53:12; Lamentations 2:12
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