Job 3:24

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּֽי־לִפְנֵ֣י לַ֭חְמִי אַנְחָתִ֣י תָבֹ֑א וַֽיִּתְּכ֥וּ כַ֝מַּ֗יִם שַׁאֲגֹתָֽי׃

Transliteration

kî-lipnê laḥmî ʾanḥātî tābōʾ wayyittəkû kammayim šaʾăgōtāy

Grammar Details

• *kî-lipnê*: conjunction + preposition with 1st common singular suffix - for before
• *laḥmî*: noun, masculine singular with 1st common singular suffix - my food/bread
• *ʾanḥātî*: noun, feminine singular with 1st common singular suffix - my sighing
• *tābōʾ*: verb, Qal imperfect, 3rd feminine singular - it comes
• *wayyittəkû*: conjunction + verb, Qal imperfect consecutive, 3rd masculine plural - and they are poured out
• *kammayim*: preposition + definite article + noun, masculine plural - like the waters
• *šaʾăgōtāy*: noun, feminine plural with 1st common singular suffix - my roarings

Word Meanings

• *lipnê*: before/in front of
• *laḥmî*: my food/my bread
• *ʾanḥātî*: my sighing/my groaning
• *tābōʾ*: it comes/it arrives
• *wayyittəkû*: and they are poured out/and they flow
• *šaʾăgōtāy*: my roarings/my groanings/my cries

Referenced Verses

• Ps 102:9 : 9 For I have eaten ashes like bread, And mingled my drink with weeping,
• Ps 38:8 : 8 I am faint and sore bruised: I have groaned by reason of the disquietness of my heart.
• Ps 42:3-4 : 3 My tears have been my food day and night, While they continually say unto me, Where is thy God? 4 These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me, How I went with the throng, and led them to the house of God, With the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping holyday.
• Ps 80:5 : 5 Thou hast fed them with the bread of tears, And given them tears to drink in large measure.
• Isa 59:11 : 11 We roar all like bears, and moan sore like doves: we look for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.
• Lam 3:8 : 8 Yea, when I cry, and call for help, he shutteth out my prayer.
• Job 6:7 : 7 My soul refuseth to touch [them]; They are as loathsome food to me.
• Job 7:19 : 19 How long wilt thou not look away from me, Nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?
• Job 33:20 : 20 So that his life abhorreth bread, And his soul dainty food.
• Ps 22:1-2 : 1 For the Chief Musician; set to Aijeleth hash-Shahar. A Psalm of David. My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? [Why art thou so] far from helping me, [and from] the words of my groaning? 2 O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou answerest not; And in the night season, and am not silent.
• Ps 32:3 : 3 When I kept silence, my bones wasted away Through my groaning all the day long.