Job 3:24 BSB — MannaFest

Job 3:24

I sigh when food is put before me, and my groans pour out like water.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

For my sighing cometh before I eat, And my groanings are poured out like water.

KJV

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

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Commentary

2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

For my sighing cometh - Some think that this refers to the ulcerated state of Job’s body, mouth, hands, etc. He longed for food, but was not able to lift it to his mouth with his hands, nor masticate it when brought thither. This is the sense in which Origen has taken the words. But perhaps it is most natural to suppose that he means his sighing took away all appetite, and served him in place of meat.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

It was Job's folly and weakness to curse his day. We must say of it, This was his infirmity; but good men have sometimes failed in the exercise of those graces which they have been most eminent for, that we may understand that when they are said to be perfect it is meant that they were upright, not that they were sinless.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

His griefs returned as duly as his meals, and affliction was his daily bread. Nay, so great was the extremity of his pain and anguish that he did not only sigh, but roar, and his roarings were poured out like the waters in a full and constant stream. Our Master was acquainted with grief, and we must expect to be so too.

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Original language & word study

8 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
כִּֽי־	ki-	if	H3588 →
לִפְנֵ֣י	lif.Nei	<to> before	H6440 →
לַ֭חְמִי	Lach.mi	food my	H3899 →
אַנְחָתִ֣י	'an.cha.Ti	groaning my	H585 →
תָבֹ֑א	ta.Vo'	it comes	H935 →
וַֽיִּתְּכ֥וּ	vai.yi.te.Khu	and they poured forth	H5413 →
כַ֝מַּ֗יִם	kha.Ma.yim	like <the> water	H4325 →
שַׁאֲגֹתָֽי׃	sha.'a.go.Tai	cries of distress my	H7581 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

H3899lachmifood my298×

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Psalms 32:3
When I kept silent, my bones became brittle from my groaning all day long.
leads to
- Proverbs 28:13
  He who conceals his sins will not prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them will find mercy.
- Psalms 38:3
  There is no soundness in my body because of Your anger; there is no rest in my bones because of my sin.
- Psalms 38:8
  I am numb and badly crushed; I groan in anguish of heart.
- Psalms 22:1
  My God, my God, why have You forsaken me? Why are You so far from saving me, so far from my words of groaning?
- Lamentations 3:8
  Even when I cry out and plead for help, He shuts out my prayer.
Through
Psalms 80:5
You fed them with the bread of tears and made them drink the full measure of their tears.
leads to
- Psalms 42:3
  My tears have been my food both day and night, while men ask me all day long, “Where is your God?”
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Isaiah 30:20
  The Lord will give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, but your Teacher will no longer hide Himself—with your own eyes you will see Him.
Through
Psalms 38:8
I am numb and badly crushed; I groan in anguish of heart.
leads to
- Psalms 32:3
  When I kept silent, my bones became brittle from my groaning all day long.

About Job

Job Hears of His Misfortunes — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

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01Commentary

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Voices on this verse

02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

06About Job

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

About Job