Parallel Verses
NET Bible
For my sighing comes in place of my food, and my groanings flow 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.
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.
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 is light given to a man whose way is hidden, and whom God has hedged in? 24 For my sighing comes in place of my food, and my groanings flow forth like water. 25 For the very thing I dreaded has happened to me, and what I feared has come upon me.
Names
Cross References
Psalm 38:8
I am numb with pain and severely battered; I groan loudly because of the anxiety I feel.
Psalm 80:5
You have given them tears as food; you have made them drink tears by the measure.
Psalm 102:9
For I eat ashes as if they were bread, and mix my drink with my tears,
Job 6:7
I have refused to touch such things; they are like loathsome food to me.
Job 7:19
Will you never look away from me, will you not let me alone long enough to swallow my spittle?
Job 33:20
so that his life loathes food, and his soul rejects appetizing fare.
Psalm 22:1-2
For the music director; according to the tune "Morning Doe;" a psalm of David. My God, my God, why have you abandoned me? I groan in prayer, but help seems far away.
Psalm 32:3
When I refused to confess my sin, my whole body wasted away, while I groaned in pain all day long.
Psalm 42:3-4
I cannot eat, I weep day and night; all day long they say to me, "Where is your God?"
Isaiah 59:11
We all growl like bears, we coo mournfully like doves; we wait for deliverance, but there is none, for salvation, but it is far from us.
Lamentations 3:8
Also, when I cry out desperately for help, he has shut out my prayer.