Parallel Verses

Holman Bible

I sigh when food is put before me,
and my groans pour out like water.

New American Standard Bible

“For my groaning comes at the sight of my food,
And my cries pour out like water.

King James Version

For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.

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.

Amplified


“For my groaning comes at the sight of my food,
And my cries [of despair] 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

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
אנחה 
'anachah 
Usage: 11


come, bring, ... in, enter, go, carry, ...down, pass, ...out,
Usage: 0

פּנים 
Paniym 
Usage: 2119

I eat
לחם 
Lechem 
Usage: 298

and my roarings
שׁאגה 
Sh@agah 
Usage: 7

Verse Info

Context Readings

Job Wishes He Might Die

23 Why is life given to a man whose path is hidden,
whom God has hedged in?
24 I sigh when food is put before me,
and my groans pour out like water.
25 For the thing I feared has overtaken me,
and what I dreaded has happened to me.


Cross References

Psalm 38:8

I am faint and severely crushed;
I groan because of the anguish of my heart.

Psalm 80:5

You fed them the bread of tears
and gave them a full measure
of tears to drink.

Psalm 102:9

I eat ashes like bread
and mingle my drinks with tears

Job 6:7

I refuse to touch them;
they are like contaminated food.

Job 7:19

Will You ever look away from me,
or leave me alone long enough to swallow?

Job 33:20

so that he detests bread,
and his soul despises his favorite food.

Psalm 22:1-2

For the choir director: according to “The Deer of the Dawn.” A Davidic psalm.My God, my God, why have You forsaken me?
Why are You so far from my deliverance
and from my words of groaning?

Psalm 32:3

When I kept silent, my bones became brittle
from my groaning all day long.

Psalm 42:3-4

My tears have been my food day and night,
while all day long people say to me,
“Where is your God?”

Isaiah 59:11

We all growl like bears
and moan 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 plead for help,
He rejects my prayer.

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