Job 3:24
For my sighing comes before I eat, 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 tears,
- Ps 38:8 : 8 I am faint and severely bruised. I have groaned by reason of the anguish of my heart.
- Ps 42:3-4 : 3 My tears have been my food day and night, While they continually ask me, "Where is your God?" 4 These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me, How I used to go with the crowd, and led them to the house of God, With the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping a holy day.
- Ps 80:5 : 5 You have 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 Yes, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.
- Job 6:7 : 7 My soul refuses to touch them; They are as loathsome food to me.
- Job 7:19 : 19 How long will you not look away from me, Nor leave me alone until I swallow down 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 My God, I cry in the daytime, but you don't answer; In the night season, and am not silent.
- Ps 32:3 : 3 When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.
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