Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
In place of my food I have grief, and cries of sorrow come from me 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.
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 To a man whose way is veiled, and who is shut in by God? 24 In place of my food I have grief, and cries of sorrow come from me like water. 25 For I have a fear and it comes on me, and my heart is greatly troubled.
Names
Cross References
Psalm 80:5
You have given them the bread of weeping for food; for their drink you have given them sorrow in great measure.
Job 6:7
My soul has no desire for such things, they are as disease in my food.
Job 7:19
How long will it be before your eyes are turned away from me, so that I may have a minute's breathing-space?
Job 33:20
He has no desire for food, and his soul is turned away from delicate meat;
Psalm 22:1-2
My God, my God, why are you turned away from me? why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my crying?
Psalm 32:3
When I kept my mouth shut, my bones were wasted, because of my crying all through the day.
Psalm 42:3-4
My tears have been my food day and night, while they keep saying to me, Where is your God?
Isaiah 59:11
We make noises of grief, like bears, and sad sounds like doves: we are looking for our right, but it is not there; for salvation, but it is far from us.
Lamentations 3:8
Even when I send up a cry for help, he keeps my prayer shut out.