Parallel Verses
American Standard Version
For my sighing cometh before I eat, And my groanings are poured 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.
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.
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 Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, And whom God hath hedged in? 24 For my sighing cometh before I eat, And my groanings are poured out like water. 25 For the thing which I fear cometh upon me, And that which I am afraid of cometh unto me.
Names
Cross References
Psalm 38:8
I am faint and sore bruised: I have groaned by reason of the disquietness of my heart.
Psalm 80:5
Thou hast fed them with the bread of tears, And given them tears to drink in large measure.
Psalm 102:9
For I have eaten ashes like bread, And mingled my drink with weeping,
Job 6:7
My soul refuseth to touch them ; They are as loathsome food to me.
Job 7:19
How long wilt thou not look away from me, Nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?
Job 33:20
So that his life abhorreth bread, And his soul dainty food.
Psalm 22:1-2
My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?
Psalm 32:3
When I kept silence, my bones wasted away 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 thy God?
Isaiah 59:11
We roar all like bears, and moan sore like doves: we look for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.
Lamentations 3:8
Yea, when I cry, and call for help, he shutteth out my prayer.