Parallel Verses
Amplified
“For my groaning comes at the sight of my food,
And my cries [of despair] are poured out like water.
New American Standard Bible
And
King James Version
For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.
Holman Bible
and my groans pour out like water.
International Standard Version
"As far as I'm concerned, my food comes to me in the form of sighs, and my cries of anguish pour out like water.
A Conservative Version
For my sighing comes before I eat, and my groanings are poured out like water.
American Standard Version
For my sighing cometh before I eat, And my groanings are poured out like water.
Bible in Basic English
In place of my food I have grief, and cries of sorrow come from me like water.
Darby Translation
For my sighing cometh before my bread, and my groanings are poured out like the waters.
Julia Smith Translation
For my sighing will come before any bread, and my groanings shall be poured put as waters.
King James 2000
For my sighing comes before I eat, and my groanings are poured out like the waters.
Lexham Expanded Bible
For my sighing comes {before} my bread, and my groanings gush forth like water
Modern King James verseion
For my sighing comes before I eat, and my groanings are poured out like the waters.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For my sighs come before I eat, and my roarings fall out like flowing water.
NET Bible
For my sighing comes in place of my food, and my groanings flow forth like water.
New Heart English Bible
For my sighing comes before I eat. My groanings are poured out like water.
The Emphasized Bible
For, in the face of my food, my sighing, cometh in, and, poured out like the water, are my groans:
Webster
For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.
World English Bible
For my sighing comes before I eat. My groanings are poured out like water.
Youngs Literal Translation
For before my food, my sighing cometh, And poured out as waters are my roarings.
Interlinear
Paniym
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 3:24
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job Wishes He Might Die
23
“Why is the light of day given to a man whose way is hidden,
And whom God has hedged in?
“For my groaning comes at the sight of my food,
And my cries [of despair] are poured out like water.
“For the thing which I greatly fear comes upon me,
And that of which I am afraid has come upon me.
Names
Cross References
Psalm 38:8
I am numb and greatly bruised [deadly cold and completely worn out];
I groan because of the disquiet and moaning of my heart.
Psalm 80:5
You have fed them the bread of tears,
And You have made them drink [bitter] tears in abundance.
Psalm 102:9
For I have eaten ashes like bread,
And have mingled my drink with tears
Job 6:7
“My soul refuses to touch them;
Such things are like loathsome food to me [sickening and repugnant].
Job 7:19
“Will You never turn Your gaze away from me [it plagues me],
Nor let me alone until I swallow my spittle?
Job 33:20
So that his life makes him loathe food,
And his soul [loathe] even his favorite dishes.
Psalm 22:1-2
Why are You so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?
Psalm 32:3
When I kept silent about my sin, my body wasted away
Through my groaning all the day long.
Psalm 42:3-4
My tears have been my food day and night,
While they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”
Isaiah 59:11
We all groan and growl like bears,
And coo sadly like doves;
We hope for justice, but there is none,
For salvation, but it is far from us.
Lamentations 3:8
Even when I cry out and shout for help,
He shuts out my prayer.