Parallel Verses
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.
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
Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged (fenced) in?
24
And
Names
Cross References
Psalm 38:8
I am numb and completely devastated. I roar because my heart is filling with anguish.
Psalm 80:5
You made them eat tears as food. You often made them drink their own tears.
Psalm 102:9
For I have eaten ashes like bread and mingled my drink with weeping.
Job 6:7
I refuse to touch it! This repugnant food makes me ill.
Job 7:19
How long will you keep looking at me and let me alone till I swallow my spittle?
Job 33:20
His very being finds food repulsive and he loathes the choicest meal.
Psalm 22:1-2
([Psalm of David]) My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far away from my deliverance, so far away from the words of my moaning?
Psalm 32:3
When I kept silent about my sins, my body wasted away and I groaned all day long.
Psalm 42:3-4
My tears have been my food day and night, while they say to me all day long: Where is your God?
Isaiah 59:11
We all growl like bears. We coo like doves. We hope for justice, but there is none. We hope for salvation, but it is far from us.
Lamentations 3:8
Even when I send up a cry for help, he shuts out my prayer.