Parallel Verses

Darby Translation

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

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.

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 To the man whose way is hidden, and whom +God hath hedged in? 24 For my sighing cometh before my bread, and my groanings are poured out like the waters. 25 For I feared a fear, and it hath come upon me, and that which I dreaded hath come to me.

Cross References

Psalm 38:8

I am faint and broken beyond measure; I roar by reason of the agitation 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

What my soul refuseth to touch, that is as my loathsome food.

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

And his life abhorreth bread, and his soul dainty food;

Psalm 22:1-2

{To the chief Musician. Upon Aijeleth-Shahar. A Psalm of David.} My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou far from my salvation, from the words of my groaning?

Psalm 32:3

When I kept silence, my bones waxed old, through my groaning all the day long.

Psalm 42:3-4

My tears have been my bread day and night, while they say unto me all the day, Where is thy God?

Isaiah 59:11

We roar all like bears, and mourn grievously like doves: we look for judgment, and there is none; for salvation, but it is far from us.

Lamentations 3:8

Even when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.

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