Job 3:24

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

{How long} will you not turn away from me? [Or] not leave me alone until I swallow my spit?

You have fed them [the] bread of tears; you have given them tears to drink in full measure.

Indeed, I eat ashes like bread and mix my drink with tears

My God, my God why have you forsaken me? [Why are you] far from helping me, [far from] the words of my groaning?

When I kept silent, my bones were worn out due to my groaning all the day.

I am faint and crushed greatly; I groan because of the roaring of my heart.

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.

Though I cry out for help, he shuts out my prayers.

"Son of man, you must eat your food with trembling, and your water with shuddering, and with anxiety you must drink.