For my sighing comes before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters. Treasury of Scripture my sighing. Job 7:19 How long will you not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle? Psalm 80:5 You feed them with the bread of tears; and give them tears to drink in great measure. Psalm 102:9 For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping. I eat. Heb. my meat. my roarings. Psalm 22:1,2 My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring... Psalm 32:3 When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long. Psalm 38:8 I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart. Isaiah 59:11 We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us. Lamentations 3:8 Also when I cry and shout, he shuts out my prayer.
Context Job Laments his Birth
1After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day. 2And Job spoke, and said, 3Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived. 4Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine on it. 5Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell on it; let the blackness of the day terrify it. 6As for that night, let darkness seize on it; let it not be joined to the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months. 7See, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein. 8Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning. 9Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day: 10Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid sorrow from my eyes. 11Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly? 12Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck? 13For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest, 14With kings and counsellors of the earth, which build desolate places for themselves; 15Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver: 16Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light. 17There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest. 18There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor. 19The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master. 20Why is light given to him that is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul; 21Which long for death, but it comes not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures; 22Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave? 23Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God has hedged in? 24For my sighing comes before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters. 25For the thing which I greatly feared is come on me, and that which I was afraid of is come to me. 26I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came. Parallel Verses American Standard Version
For my sighing cometh before I eat, And my groanings are poured out like water.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Before I eat I sigh: and as overflowing waters, so is my roaring:
Darby Bible Translation
For my sighing cometh before my bread, and my groanings are poured out like the waters.
King James Bible
For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.
Young's Literal Translation
For before my food, my sighing cometh, And poured out as waters are my roarings.
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