Scripture · Old Testament

Job 3:24

Job 3:24 is verse 24 of Job chapter 3, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

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

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

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

Job 3:22–26 · Berean Standard Bible

22 who rejoice and greatly exult when they can find the grave?

23 Why is life given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?

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

25 For the thing I feared has overtaken me, and what I dreaded has befallen me.

26 I am not at ease or quiet; I have no rest, for trouble has come.”

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Job 7:19
Will You never look away from me, or leave me alone to swallow my spittle?

Psalms 80:5
You fed them with the bread of tears and made them drink the full measure of their tears.

Psalms 102:9
For I have eaten ashes like bread and mixed my drink with tears

Psalms 22:1
My God, my God, why have You forsaken me? Why are You so far from saving me, so far from my words of groaning?

Psalms 22:2
I cry out by day, O my God, but You do not answer, and by night, but I have no rest.

Psalms 32:3
When I kept silent, my bones became brittle from my groaning all day long.

Psalms 38:8
I am numb and badly crushed; I groan in anguish of heart.

Isaiah 59:11
We all growl like bears and moan like doves. We hope for justice, but find none, for salvation, but it is far from us.

Lamentations 3:8
Even when I cry out and plead for help, He shuts out my prayer.