Job 3:24
Good News Translation
Instead of eating, I mourn, and I can never stop groaning.

New Revised Standard Version
For my sighing comes like my bread, and my groanings are poured out like water.

Contemporary English Version
Moaning and groaning are my food and drink,

New American Bible
For to me sighing comes more readily than food; my groans well forth like water.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Before I eat I sigh: and as overflowing waters, so is my roaring:

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Before I eat I sigh: and as overflowing waters, so is my roaring:

my sighing.

Job 7:19 How long wilt thou not spare me, nor suffer me to swallow down my spittle?

Psalm 80:5 How long wilt thou feed us with the bread of tears: and give us for our drink tears in measure?

Psalm 102:9 For I did eat ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping.

I eat.

Psalm 22:1,2 Unto the end, for the morning protection, a psalm for David. [2] O God my God, look upon me: why hast thou forsaken me? Far from my salvation are the words of my sins. . . .

Psalm 32:3 Because I was silent my bones grew old; whilst I cried out all the day long.

Psalm 38:8 I am afflicted and humbled exceedingly: I roared with the groaning of my heart.

Isaiah 59:11 We shall roar all of us like bears, and shall lament as mournful doves. We have looked for judgment, and there is none: for salvation, and it is far from us.

Lamentations 3:8 Ghimel. Yea, and when I cry, and entreat, he hath shut out my prayer.

Context
Job Laments His Birth
23To a man whose way is hidden, and God hath surrounded him with darkness? 24Before I eat I sigh: and as overflowing waters, so is my roaring:25For the fear which I feared, hath come upon me: and that which I was afraid of, hath befallen me.…
Cross References
Job 6:7
The things which before my soul would not touch, now, through anguish, are my meats.

Job 30:16
And now my soul fadeth within myself, and the days of affliction possess me.

Job 33:20
Bread becometh abominable to him in his life, and to his soul the meat which before he desired.

Psalm 22:1
Unto the end, for the morning protection, a psalm for David. [2] O God my God, look upon me: why hast thou forsaken me? Far from my salvation are the words of my sins.

Psalm 38:8
I am afflicted and humbled exceedingly: I roared with the groaning of my heart.

Psalm 42:4
These things I remembered, and poured out my soul in me: for I shall go over into the place of the wonderful tabernacle, even to the house of God: With the voice of joy and praise; the noise of one feasting.

Job 3:23
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