Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
For my sighing comes {before} my bread, and my groanings gush forth 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.
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.
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 does he give light] to a man whose way is hidden, and God has fenced him in [all] around? 24 For my sighing comes {before} my bread, and my groanings gush forth like water 25 because the dread that I {feel} has come upon me, and what I feared befalls me.
Names
Cross References
Psalm 38:8
I am faint and crushed greatly; I groan because of the roaring of my heart.
Psalm 80:5
You have fed them [the] bread of tears; you have given them tears to drink in full measure.
Psalm 102:9
Indeed, I eat ashes like bread and mix my drink with tears
Job 6:7
{I refused} to touch [them]; they [are] like {food that will make me ill}.
Job 7:19
{How long} will you not turn away from me? [Or] not leave me alone until I swallow my spit?
Job 33:20
{so that} his life loathes bread, and his inner self [loathes] {appetizing food}.
Psalm 22:1-2
My God, my God why have you forsaken me? [Why are you] far from helping me, [far from] the words of my groaning?
Psalm 32:3
When I kept silent, my bones were worn out due to my groaning all the day.
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
We all groan like bears, and we coo mutteringly like doves. We wait for justice, but there is none; for salvation, [but] it is far from us.
Lamentations 3:8
Though I cry out for help, he shuts out my prayers.