Job 3:24

Bible in Basic English (1941)

In place of my food I have grief, and cries of sorrow come from me like water.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 102:9 : 9 I have had dust for bread and my drink has been mixed with weeping:
  • Ps 38:8 : 8 I am feeble and crushed down; I gave a cry like a lion because of the grief in my heart.
  • Ps 42:3-4 : 3 My tears have been my food day and night, while they keep saying to me, Where is your God? 4 Let my soul be overflowing with grief when these things come back to my mind, how I went in company to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with the song of those who were keeping the feast.
  • Ps 80:5 : 5 You have given them the bread of weeping for food; for their drink you have given them sorrow in great measure.
  • Isa 59:11 : 11 We make noises of grief, like bears, and sad sounds like doves: we are looking for our right, but it is not there; for salvation, but it is far from us.
  • Lam 3:8 : 8 Even when I send up a cry for help, he keeps my prayer shut out.
  • Job 6:7 : 7 My soul has no desire for such things, they are as disease in my food.
  • Job 7:19 : 19 How long will it be before your eyes are turned away from me, so that I may have a minute's breathing-space?
  • Job 33:20 : 20 He has no desire for food, and his soul is turned away from delicate meat;
  • Ps 22:1-2 : 1 <To the chief music-maker on Aijeleth-hash-shahar. A Psalm. Of David.> My God, my God, why are you turned away from me? why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my crying? 2 O my God, I make my cry in the day, and you give no answer; and in the night, and have no rest.
  • Ps 32:3 : 3 When I kept my mouth shut, my bones were wasted, because of my crying all through the day.

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