Job 3:24 Parallel Translations

NASB:

GWT:

"When my food is in front of me, I sigh. I pour out my groaning like water.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

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

ASV:

For my sighing cometh before I eat, And my groanings are poured out like water.

BBE:

In place of my food I have grief, and cries of sorrow come from me like water.

DBY:

For my sighing cometh before my bread, and my groanings are poured out like the waters.

ERV:

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

JPS:

For my sighing cometh instead of my food, and my roarings are poured out like water.

WBS:

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

WEB:

For my sighing comes before I eat. My groanings are poured out like water.

YLT:

For before my food, my sighing cometh, And poured out as waters are my roarings.

Job 3:24 Cross References

XREF:

Job 6:7 "My soul refuses to touch them; They are like loathsome food to me.

Job 30:16 "And now my soul is poured out within me; Days of affliction have seized me.

Job 33:20 So that his life loathes bread, And his soul favorite food.

Psalm 42:4 These things I remember and I pour out my soul within me. For I used to go along with the throng and lead them in procession to the house of God, With the voice of joy and thanksgiving, a multitude keeping festival. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

WES:

3:24 Before, and c. - Heb. before the face of my bread, all the time I am eating, I fall into sighing and weeping, because I am obliged to eat, and to support this wretched life, and because of my uninterrupted pains of body and of mind, which do not afford me one quiet moment. Roarings - My loud outcries, more befitting a lion than a man. Poured out - With great abundance, and irresistible violence, and incessant continuance, as waters flow in a river, or as they break the banks, and overflow the ground.

MHC:

3:20-26 Job was like a man who had lost his way, and had no prospect of escape, or hope of better times. But surely he was in an ill frame for death when so unwilling to live. Let it be our constant care to get ready for another world, and then leave it to God to order our removal thither as he thinks fit. Grace teaches us in the midst of life's greatest comforts, to be willing to die, and in the midst of its greatest crosses, to be willing to live. Job's way was hid; he knew not wherefore God contended with him. The afflicted and tempted Christian knows something of this heaviness; when he has been looking too much at the things that are seen, some chastisement of his heavenly Father will give him a taste of this disgust of life, and a glance at these dark regions of despair. Nor is there any help until God shall restore to him the joys of his salvation. Blessed be God, the earth is full of his goodness, though full of man's wickedness. This life may be made tolerable if we attend to our duty. We look for eternal mercy, if willing to receive Christ as our Saviour.

CONC:

Bread Cries Eat Grief Groaning Groanings Groans Instead Pour Poured Roarings Sighing Sight Sorrow Waters

Bread Cries Eat Food Grief Groaning Groanings Groans Instead Pour Poured Sighing Sight Sorrow Water Waters

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