Job 3:24 · KJV
“For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters. {I eat: Heb. my meat}”
— Job 3:24
{Why is light given} to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?
For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me. {the thing...: Heb. I feared a fear, and it came upon me}
Job 3 — Context
Which rejoice exceedingly, {and} are glad, when they can find the grave?
23{Why is light given} to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?
24For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters. {I eat: Heb. my meat}
25For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me. {the thing...: Heb. I feared a fear, and it came upon me}
26I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.
Cross References
Psalms 102:9
For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,
Psalms 80:5
Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.
Psalms 42:3-4
My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where {is} thy God?
Psalms 38:8
I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.
Job 6:7
The things {that} my soul refused to touch {are} as my sorrowful meat.
Lamentations 3:8
Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
Psalms 32:3
When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.
Psalms 22:1-2
[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? {Aijeleth...: or, the hind of the morning} {helping...: Heb. my salvation}