Job 3:24

KJV1611 – Modern English

For my sighing comes before I eat, and my groanings are poured out like water.

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  • Ps 102:9 : 9 For I have eaten ashes like bread and mixed my drink with weeping,
  • Ps 38:8 : 8 I am feeble and severely broken; I have roared because of the disquiet of my heart.
  • Ps 42:3-4 : 3 My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually say to me, Where is your God? 4 When I remember these things, I pour out my soul within 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 a feast.
  • Ps 80:5 : 5 You feed them with the bread of tears and give them tears to drink in great measure.
  • Isa 59:11 : 11 We all roar like bears, and mourn deeply like doves: we look for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far from us.
  • Lam 3:8 : 8 Even when I cry and shout, He shuts out my prayer.
  • Job 6:7 : 7 The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful food.
  • Job 7:19 : 19 How long will you not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow my spittle?
  • Job 33:20 : 20 So that his life abhors bread, and his soul dainty food.
  • Ps 22:1-2 : 1 My God, my God, why have You forsaken me? Why are You so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning? 2 O my God, I cry in the daytime, but You do not hear; and in the night season, and am not silent.
  • Ps 32:3 : 3 When I kept silent, my bones grew old through my groaning all day long.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 25 For the thing I greatly feared has come upon me, and what I dreaded has happened to me.

  • 3 My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually say to me, Where is your God?

  • Job 7:11-12
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    11 Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

    12 Am I a sea, or a monster, that you set a watch over me?

  • Ps 38:8-10
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    77%

    8 I am feeble and severely broken; I have roared because of the disquiet of my heart.

    9 Lord, all my desire is before you, and my groaning is not hidden from you.

    10 My heart pants, my strength fails me; as for the light of my eyes, it also has gone from me.

  • Lam 1:20-22
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    76%

    20 Behold, O LORD; for I am in distress: my heart is troubled; my heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: abroad the sword bereaves, at home there is as death.

    21 They have heard that I sigh: there is none to comfort me: all my enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that you have done it: you will bring the day that you have promised, and they shall be like me.

    22 Let all their wickedness come before you; and do unto them, as you have done unto me for all my transgressions: for my sighs are many, and my heart is faint.

  • Ps 69:2-3
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    2 I sink in deep mire, where there is no footing; I have come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.

    3 I am weary of my crying; my throat is dry; my eyes fail while I wait for my God.

  • 9 For I have eaten ashes like bread and mixed my drink with weeping,

  • Ps 31:9-10
    2 verses
    76%

    9 Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: my eye is consumed with grief, yes, my soul and my body.

    10 For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength fails because of my iniquity, and my bones are consumed.

  • 76%

    6 I am weary with my groaning; all the night I make my bed swim; I drench my couch with my tears.

  • 17 For I am ready to fall, and my sorrow is continually before me.

  • 16 And now my soul is poured out within me; the days of affliction have seized me.

  • 3 For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea; therefore my words are swallowed up.

  • Ps 32:3-4
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    75%

    3 When I kept silent, my bones grew old through my groaning all day long.

    4 For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; my vitality turned into the drought of summer. Selah.

  • Ps 22:13-15
    3 verses
    75%

    13 They gaped at me with their mouths, like a ravening and roaring lion.

    14 I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint; my heart is like wax; it is melted within me.

    15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue clings to my jaws; You have brought me into the dust of death.

  • 2 I poured out my complaint before Him; I showed Him my trouble.

  • 3 Therefore my loins are filled with pain; pangs have seized me, like the pangs of a woman in labor. I was bent over when I heard it; I was dismayed when I saw it.

  • 4 Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.

  • 2 Even today my complaint is bitter; my suffering is heavier than my groaning.

  • Job 30:27-28
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    74%

    27 My insides boiled and did not rest: the days of affliction confronted me.

    28 I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.

  • 20 My friends scorn me, but my eye pours out tears to God.

  • Ps 102:4-5
    2 verses
    74%

    4 My heart is stricken and withered like grass, so I forget to eat my bread.

    5 Because of the voice of my groaning, my bones cling to my skin.

  • 1 My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

  • 4 As for me, is my complaint to a man? And if it were, why should my spirit not be troubled?

  • 7 Deep calls unto deep at the noise of Your waterfalls: all Your waves and billows have gone over me.

  • 16 My face is flushed with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;

  • 1 My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.

  • 6 I am troubled; I am greatly bowed down; I go mourning all the day long.

  • 18 He will not allow me to regain my breath, but fills me with bitterness.

  • 4 My heart is in anguish within me, and the terrors of death have fallen upon me.

  • 16 He has also broken my teeth with gravel stones; He has covered me with ashes.

  • 16 For these things I weep; my eye, my eye runs down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me: my children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed.

  • 18 When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint within me.

  • 21 Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pierced in my mind.

  • 14 They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.

  • 49 My eye flows ceaselessly, without intermission,

  • 13 From above he has sent fire into my bones, and it prevails against them: he has spread a net for my feet, he has turned me back: he has made me desolate and faint all the day.

  • 8 Even when I cry and shout, He shuts out my prayer.

  • 23 Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, and whom God has hedged in?