For my sighing cometh before I eat
Or, "before my bread", or "food" F7; before he sat down to eat,
or had tasted of his food, there were nothing but sighing and
sobbing, so that he had no appetite for his food, and could take
no delight in it; and, while he was eating, his tears mingled
with it, so that these were his meat and his drink continually,
and he was fed with the bread and water of affliction; and
therefore what were light and life to such a person, who could
not have the pleasure of one comfortable meal?
and my roarings are poured out like the waters;
he not only wept privately and in secret, and cried more publicly
both to God and in the presence of men, but such was the force
and weight of his affliction, that he even roared out, and that
like a lion; and his afflictions, which were the cause of these
roarings, are compared to waters and the pouring of them out; for
the noise these waterspouts made, and for the great abundance of
them, and for their quick and frequent returns, and long
continuance, one wave and billow rolling upon another.