Devine Scripture

Job 3:24

Job chapter 3 · verse 24 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

For my sighing cometh before I eat, And my groanings are poured out like water.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

For my sighing cometh before I eat, And my groanings are poured out like water.

Context

v.23Why is light givento a man whose way is hid, And whom God hath hedged in?

v.24This passage

v.25For the thing which I fear cometh upon me, And that which I am afraid of cometh unto me.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Lamentations 3:8

    Yea, when I cry, and call for help, he shutteth out my prayer.

  • Job 6:7

    My soul refuseth to touch them; They are as loathsome food to me.

  • Job 33:20

    So that his life abhorreth bread, And his soul dainty food.

  • Psalms 32:3

    When I kept silence, my bones wasted away Through my groaning all the day long.

  • Psalms 102:9

    For I have eaten ashes like bread, And mingled my drink with weeping,

  • Job 7:19

    How long wilt thou not look away from me, Nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?