Job 3:24 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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

Job 3:24 —

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Cross-References

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Psalms 102:9
For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,
Psalms 80:5
Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.
Psalms 42:3-4
My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God? …
Psalms 38:8
I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.
Isaiah 59:11
We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities Despair Despondency Discouragement

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 20-26)

Job, finding it to no purpose to wish either that he had not been born or had died as soon as he was born, here complains that his life was now continued and not cut off. When men are set on quarrelling there is no end of it; the corrupt heart will carry on the humour. Having cursed the day of his birth, here he courts the day of his death. The beginning of this strife and impatience is as the let…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 24)

24. my sighing cometh before I eat--that is, prevents my eating [Umbreit]; or, conscious that the effort to eat brought on the disease, Job must sigh before eating [Rosenmuller]; or, sighing takes the place of good (Psa 42:3) [Good]. But the first explanation accords best with the text. my roarings are poured out like the waters--an image from the rushing sound of water streaming.