Parallel Verses
King James 2000
For my sighing comes before I eat, and my groanings are poured out like the waters.
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.
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.
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 light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God has hedged in? 24 For my sighing comes before I eat, and my groanings are poured out like the waters. 25 For the thing which I greatly feared has come upon me, and that which I was afraid of has come unto me.
Names
Cross References
Psalm 38:8
I am feeble and utterly broken: I have groaned by reason of the turmoil of my heart.
Psalm 80:5
You feed them with the bread of tears; and give them tears to drink in great measure.
Psalm 102:9
For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,
Job 6:7
The things that my soul refused to touch are as loathsome food to me.
Job 7:19
How long will you not look away from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?
Job 33:20
So that his life abhors bread, and his soul the choicest food.
Psalm 22:1-2
[To the Chief Musician upon aijeleth shahar. A Psalm of David.] My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?
Psalm 32:3
When I kept silence, my bones grew old through my groaning all the day long.
Psalm 42:3-4
My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is your God?
Isaiah 59:11
We all growl like bears, and mourn greatly like doves: we look for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.
Lamentations 3:8
Also when I cry and shout, he shuts out my prayer.