Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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
Paniym
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 3:24
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job Wishes He Might Die
23 To the formerly successful man who lost his way in life, and God fenced him in? 24 "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. 25 For the dreaded thing that I feared has happened to me, what caused me to worry has engulfed me.
Names
Cross References
Psalm 38:8
I am weak and utterly crushed; I cry out in distress because of my heart's anguish.
Psalm 80:5
You fed them tears as their food, and caused them to drink a full measure of tears.
Psalm 102:9
I have eaten ashes as food and mixed my drink with tears
Job 6:7
I cannot bring myself to touch them; food like this makes me sick."
Job 7:19
Why won't you look away from me? Why don't you leave me alone so I can swallow my saliva?
Job 33:20
He cannot stand his food, and he has no desire for appetizing food.
Psalm 22:1-2
My God! My God! Why have you abandoned me? Why are you so far from delivering me from my groaning words?
Psalm 32:3
When I kept silent about my sin, my body wasted away by my groaning all day long.
Psalm 42:3-4
My tears have been my food day and night, while people keep asking me all day long, "Where is your God?"
Isaiah 59:11
We all growl like bears; we sigh mournfully like doves. We look for justice, but there is none, and for deliverance, but it's far from us.
Lamentations 3:8
Indeed, when I cry out, calling for help, he shuts out my prayer.