Job 3:24

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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

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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 feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.
  • Ps 42:3-4 : 3 My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where [is] thy God? 4 When I remember these [things], I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday.
  • Ps 80:5 : 5 Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.
  • Isa 59:11 : 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.
  • Lam 3:8 : 8 Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
  • Job 6:7 : 7 The things [that] my soul refused to touch [are] as my sorrowful meat.
  • Job 7:19 : 19 How long wilt thou not depart 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 meat.
  • Ps 22:1-2 : 1 ¶ To the chief Musician upon Aijeleth 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 roaring? 2 O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.
  • Ps 32:3 : 3 When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.

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