Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
For my sighing will come before any bread, and my groanings shall be poured put as waters.
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.
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 was hid, and God will hedge about him? 24 For my sighing will come before any bread, and my groanings shall be poured put as waters. 25 For I feared a fear, and it will come upon me, and what I was afraid of will come to me.
Names
Cross References
Psalm 38:8
For my loins were filled with inflammation, and no soundness in my flesh.
Psalm 80:5
Thou gavest them to eat the bread of tears, and thou wilt give them to drink in tears by measure.
Psalm 102:9
For I ate ashes as bread, and I mingled my drink with weeping.
Job 6:7
My soul refused to touch these as the loathsomeness of my bread.
Job 7:19
How long wilt thou not look away from me? wilt thou not desist from me even to my swallowing down my spittle?
Job 33:20
His life loathed bread, and his soul food of desire.
Psalm 22:1-2
To the overseer upon the first place of the dawn; chanting of David. My God, my God, wherefore forsookest thou me? far off from my salvation the words of my groaning.
Psalm 32:3
If I was silent, my bones fell away in my groaning all the day.
Psalm 42:3-4
My tears were to me bread day and night, in saying to me all the days, Where is thy God?
Isaiah 59:11
We shall growl as bears all of us, and murmuring we shall murmur as doves: we shall wait for judgment, and none; for salvation, it was far from us.
Lamentations 3:8
Also when I shall exclaim and cry out, he stopped my prayer.