Parallel Verses

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.

Holman Bible

I sigh when food is put before me,
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.

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 light given to a man whose way is hidden,
And whom God has hedged in?
24 “For my groaning comes at the sight of my food,
And my cries pour out like water.
25 “For what I fear comes upon me,
And what I dread befalls me.


Cross References

Psalm 38:8

I am benumbed and badly crushed;
I groan because of the agitation of my heart.

Psalm 80:5

You have fed them with the bread of tears,
And You have made them to drink tears in large measure.

Psalm 102:9

For I have eaten ashes like bread
And mingled my drink with weeping

Job 6:7

“My soul refuses to touch them;
They are like loathsome food to me.

Job 7:19

Will You never turn Your gaze away from me,
Nor let me alone until I swallow my spittle?

Job 33:20

So that his life loathes bread,
And his soul favorite food.

Psalm 22:1-2

For the choir director; upon Aijeleth Hashshahar. A Psalm of David.
My God, my God, why have You forsaken me?
Far from my deliverance are the words of my groaning.

Psalm 32:3

When I kept silent about my sin, my body wasted away
Through my groaning all 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

All of us growl like bears,
And moan 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 call for help,
He shuts out my prayer.

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