Job 3:24

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

For my sighing comes in place of my food, and my groanings flow forth like water.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 102:9 : 9 For I eat ashes as if they were bread, and mix my drink with my tears,
  • Ps 38:8 : 8 I am numb with pain and severely battered; I groan loudly because of the anxiety I feel.
  • Ps 42:3-4 : 3 I cannot eat, I weep day and night; all day long they say to me,“Where is your God?” 4 I will remember and weep! For I was once walking along with the great throng to the temple of God, shouting and giving thanks along with the crowd as we celebrated the holy festival.
  • Ps 80:5 : 5 You have given them tears as food; you have made them drink tears by the measure.
  • Isa 59:11 : 11 We all growl like bears, we coo mournfully like doves; we wait for deliverance, but there is none, for salvation, but it is far from us.
  • Lam 3:8 : 8 Also, when I cry out desperately for help, he has shut out my prayer.
  • Job 6:7 : 7 I have refused to touch such things; they are like loathsome food to me.
  • Job 7:19 : 19 Will you never look away from me, will you not let me alone long enough to swallow my spittle?
  • Job 33:20 : 20 so that his life loathes food, and his soul rejects appetizing fare.
  • Ps 22:1-2 : 1 For the music director; according to the tune“Morning Doe;” a psalm of David. My God, my God, why have you abandoned me? I groan in prayer, but help seems far away. 2 My God, I cry out during the day, but you do not answer, and during the night my prayers do not let up.
  • Ps 32:3 : 3 When I refused to confess my sin, my whole body wasted away, while I groaned in pain all day long.

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

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    3I cannot eat, I weep day and night; all day long they say to me,“Where is your God?”

  • Job 7:11-12
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    11Job Remonstrates with God“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.

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  • Ps 38:8-10
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    8I am numb with pain and severely battered; I groan loudly because of the anxiety I feel.

    9O Lord, you understand my heart’s desire; my groaning is not hidden from you.

    10My heart beats quickly; my strength leaves me; I can hardly see.

  • Lam 1:20-22
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    20ר(Resh) Look, O LORD! I am distressed; my stomach is in knots! My heart is pounding inside me. Yes, I was terribly rebellious! Out in the street the sword bereaves a mother of her children; Inside the house death is present.

    21ש(Sin/Shin) They have heard that I groan, yet there is no one to comfort me. All my enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that you have brought it about. Bring about the day of judgment that you promised so that they may end up like me!

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  • Ps 69:2-3
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    2I sink into the deep mire where there is no solid ground; I am in deep water, and the current overpowers me.

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    9For I eat ashes as if they were bread, and mix my drink with my tears,

  • Ps 31:9-10
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    9Have mercy on me, LORD, for I am in distress! My eyes grow dim from suffering. I have lost my strength.

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    6I am exhausted as I groan; all night long I drench my bed in tears; my tears saturate the cushion beneath me.

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    17For I am about to stumble, and I am in constant pain.

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    3When I refused to confess my sin, my whole body wasted away, while I groaned in pain all day long.

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    13They open their mouths to devour me like a roaring lion that rips its prey.

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    15The roof of my mouth is as dry as a piece of pottery; my tongue sticks to my gums. You set me in the dust of death.

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  • Isa 21:3
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  • Ps 143:4
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  • Job 23:2
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    73%

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    6I am dazed and completely humiliated; all day long I walk around mourning.

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  • Ps 55:4
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    16ע(Ayin) I weep because of these things; my eyes flow with tears. For there is no one in sight who can comfort me or encourage me. My children are desolated because an enemy has prevailed.

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    18Then I said,“There is no cure for my grief! I am sick at heart!

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    21Yes, my spirit was bitter, and my insides felt sharp pain.

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    49ע(Ayin) Tears flow from my eyes and will not stop; there will be no break

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    8Also, when I cry out desperately for help, he has shut out my prayer.

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