Job 3:24
Modern Translations
New International Version
For sighing has become my daily food; my groans pour out like water.

New Living Translation
I cannot eat for sighing; my groans pour out like water.

English Standard Version
For my sighing comes instead of my bread, and my groanings are poured out like water.

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

New American Standard Bible
“For my groaning comes at the sight of my food, And my cries pour out like water.

NASB 1995
"For my groaning comes at the sight of my food, And my cries pour out like water.

NASB 1977
“For my groaning comes at the sight of my food, And my cries pour out like water.

Amplified Bible
“For my groaning comes at the sight of my food, And my cries [of despair] are poured out like water.

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

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

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

Good News Translation
Instead of eating, I mourn, and I can never stop groaning.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
"When my food is in front of me, I sigh. I pour out my groaning 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.

NET Bible
For my sighing comes in place of my food, and my groanings flow forth like water.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.

New King James Version
For my sighing comes before I eat, And my groanings pour out like water.

King James 2000 Bible
For my sighing comes before I eat, and my groanings are poured out like the waters.

New Heart English Bible
For my sighing comes before I eat. My groanings are poured out like water.

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

American King James Version
For my sighing comes before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.

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

A Faithful Version
For my sighing comes instead of my food, and my groanings are poured out like the waters.

Darby Bible Translation
For my sighing cometh before my bread, and my groanings are poured out like the waters.

English Revised Version
For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like water.

Webster's Bible Translation
For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
For my sighing commeth before I eate, and my roarings are powred out like the water.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
For my sighes come before I eate, and my roringes are powred out like the water:

Coverdale Bible of 1535
This is the cause, that I syghe before I eate, and my roaringes fall out like a water floude.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
For before my food, my sighing comes, "" And my roarings [are] poured out as waters.

Young's Literal Translation
For before my food, my sighing cometh, And poured out as waters are my roarings.

Smith's Literal Translation
For my sighing will come before any bread, and my groanings shall be poured put as waters.

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

Catholic Public Domain Version
Before I eat, I sigh; and like overflowing waters, so is my howl,

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
Because before my bread my sighing entered, and my moanings are poured out like waters

Lamsa Bible
For my sighing comes before I eat, and my moanings are poured out like water.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
For my sighing cometh instead of my food, And my roarings are poured out like water.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
For my groaning comes before my food, and I weep being beset with terror.
















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