Job 3:24

WEB

²⁴For my sighing comes before I eat. My groanings are poured out like water.

KJV

²⁴For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.

BSB

²⁴I sigh when food is put before me, and my groans pour out like water.

FBV

²⁴^[+] My groans are the bread I eat; my raging tears are the water I drink.

Extra References

Psalms 102:9

⁹For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mixed my drink with tears,

Psalms 80:5

⁵You have fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in large measure.

³My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually ask me, “Where is your God?” ⁴These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me, how I used to go with the crowd, and led them to God’s house, with the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping a holy day.

Psalms 38:8

⁸I am faint and severely bruised. I have groaned by reason of the anguish of my heart.

Job 7:19

¹⁹How long will you not look away from me, nor leave me alone until I swallow down my spittle?

Job 6:7

⁷My soul refuses to touch them. They are as loathsome food to me.

Job 33:20

²⁰so that his life abhors bread, and his soul dainty food.

Lamentations 3:8

⁸Yes, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.

Psalms 22:1-2

¹My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning? ²My God, I cry in the daytime, but you don’t answer; in the night season, and am not silent.

Isaiah 59:11

¹¹We all roar like bears and moan sadly like doves. We look for justice, but there is none, for salvation, but it is far off from us.