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Brenton's Septuagint
Job 3:24
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I sigh when food is put before me,and my groans pour out like water.
For my sighing comes before I eat, My groanings are poured out like water.
For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.
For my sighing comes instead of my bread, and my groanings are poured out like water.
I make sad sounds as I eat; my groans pour out like water.
For my sighing comes in place of my food, and my groanings flow forth like water.
"For my groaning comes at the sight of my food, And my cries [of despair] are poured out like water.
"For my groaning comes at the sight of my food, And my cries pour out like water.
For my sighing comes before I eat, My groanings are poured out like water.
For my sighing commeth before I eate, and my roarings are powred out like the water.
For my groaning comes at the sight of my food,And my roaring pours out like water.
I sigh when food is put before me, and my groans pour out like water.
Moaning and groaning are my food and drink,
for the thing I feared has overwhelmed me, what I dreaded has happened to me.
For my sighing cometh before my bread, and my groanings are poured out like the waters.
When it is time to eat, all I can do is sigh with sadness, not joy. My groans pour out like water.
For my sighing comes before I eat, and my moanings are poured out like water.
Instead of eating, I mourn, and I can never stop groaning.
For my sighing comes before my bread, and my groanings gush forth like water
For my sighing comes before my food; and my groanings are poured out like the waters.
This is the cause, that I syghe before I eate, and my roaringes fall out like a water floude.
For my sighing cometh before I eat, And my groanings are poured out like water.
In place of my food I have grief, and cries of sorrow come from me like water.
For my sighes come before I eate, and my roringes are powred out like the water:
For my sighing cometh instead of my food, and my roarings are poured out like water.
For my sighing commeth before I eate, and my roarings are powred out like the waters.
For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like water.
Bifore that Y ete, Y siyhe; and as of watir flowynge, so is my roryng.
For my sighing comes before I eat, And my groanings are poured out like water.
For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.
For my sighing comes before I eat, [fn] And my groanings pour out like water.
I cannot eat for sighing; my groans pour out like water.
For I cry inside myself in front of my food. My cries pour out like water.
For my sighing comes like my bread, and my groanings are poured out like water.
For, in the face of my food, my sighing, cometh in, and, poured out like the water, are my groans:
Before I eat I sigh: and as overflowing waters, so is my roaring:
For my sighing comes as my bread, and my groanings are poured out like water.
For before my food, my sighing cometh, And poured out as waters [are] my roarings.
"Instead of bread I get groans for my supper, then leave the table and vomit my anguish. The worst of my fears has come true, what I've dreaded most has happened. My repose is shattered, my peace destroyed. No rest for me, ever—death has invaded life."
"For my groaning comes at the sight of my food, And my cries pour out like water.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
my sighing: Job 7:19, Psalms 80:5, Psalms 102:9
I eat: Heb. my meat
my roarings: Psalms 22:1, Psalms 22:2, Psalms 32:3, Psalms 38:8, Isaiah 59:11, Lamentations 3:8
Reciprocal: Job 7:20 - I am Psalms 31:10 - my life Lamentations 2:19 - pour Ezekiel 12:18 - General
Cross-References
Now the serpent was the most crafty of all the brutes on the earth, which the Lord God made, and the serpent said to the woman, Wherefore has God said, Eat not of every tree of the garden?
(3:9) And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the afternoon; and both Adam and his wife hid themselves from the face of the Lord God in the midst of the trees of the garden.
And I will put enmity between thee and the woman and between thy seed and her seed, he shall watch against thy head, and thou shalt watch against his heel.
And to the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy pains and thy groanings; in pain thou shalt bring forth children, and thy submission shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
And to Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and eaten of the tree concerning which I charged thee of it only not to eat—of that thou hast eaten, cursed is the ground in thy labours, in pain shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life.
And the Lord God made for Adam and his wife garments of skin, and clothed them.
Speak to the children of Israel, and take first-fruits of all, who may be disposed in their heart to give; and ye shall take my first-fruits.
And when the ass saw the angel of God standing opposite in the way, and his sword drawn in his hand, then the ass turned aside out of the way, and went into the field; and Balaam smote the ass with his staff to direct her in the way.
And it came to pass when Joshua was in Jericho, that he looked up with his eyes and saw a man standing before him, and there was a drawn sword in his hand; and Joshua drew near and said to him, Art thou for us or on the side of our enemies?
And the people sent to Selom, and they take thence the ark of the Lord who dwells between the cherubs: and both the sons of Heli, Ophni and Phinees, were with the ark.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
For my sighing cometh before I eat,.... Or, "before my bread", or "food" g; before he sat down to eat, or had tasted of his food, there were nothing but sighing and sobbing, so that he had no appetite for his food, and could take no delight in it; and, while he was eating, his tears mingled with it, so that these were his meat and his drink continually, and he was fed with the bread and water of affliction; and therefore what were light and life to such a person, who could not have the pleasure of one comfortable meal?
and my roarings are poured out like the waters; he not only wept privately and in secret, and cried more publicly both to God and in the presence of men, but such was the force and weight of his affliction, that he even roared out, and that like a lion; and his afflictions, which were the cause of these roarings, are compared to waters and the pouring of them out; for the noise these waterspouts made, and for the great abundance of them, and for their quick and frequent returns, and long continuance, one wave and billow rolling upon another.
g לפני לחמי "ante cibum meum", Junius Tremellius, Piscator "ante panem meum", Cocceius, Schmidt, Michaelis.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
For my sighing cometh before I eat - Margin, “My meat.” Dr. Good renders this,” Behold! my sighing takes the place of my daily food, and refers to Psalms 42:3, as an illustration:
My tears are my meat day and night.
So substantially Schultens renders it, and explains it as meaning, “My sighing comes in the manner of my food,” “Suspirium ad modum panis veniens” - and supposes it to mean that his sighs and groans were like his daily food; or were constant and unceasing. Dr. Noyes explains it as meaning, “My sighing comes on when I begin to eat, and prevents my taking my daily nourishment;” and appeals to a similar expression in Juvenal. Sat. xiii. 211:
Perpetua anxietas, nec mensae tempore cessat.
Rosenmuller gives substantially the same explanation, and remarks, also, that some suppose that the mouth, hands, and tongue of Job were so affected with disease, that the effort to eat increased his sufferings, and brought on a renewal of his sorrows. The same view is given by Origen; and this is probably the correct sense.
And my roarings - My deep and heavy groans.
Are poured out like the waters - That is,
(1) “in number” - they were like rolling billows, or like the heaving deep.
(2) Perhaps also in “sound” like them. His groans were like the troubled ocean, that can be heard afar. Perhaps, also,
(3.) he means to say that his groans were attended with “a flood of tears,” or that his tears were like the waves of the sea.
There is some hyperbole in the figure, in whichever way it is understood; but we are to remember that his feelings were deeply excited, and that the Orientals were in the habit of expressing themselves in a mode, which to us, of more phlegmatic temperament, may seem extravagant in the extreme. We have, however, a similar expression when we say of one that “he burst into a “flood of tears.””
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 3:24. For my sighing cometh — Some think that this refers to the ulcerated state of Job's body, mouth, hands, c. 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. There is the same thought in Psalms 42:3: My tears have been my meat day and night which place is not an imitation of Job, but more likely Job an imitation of it, or, rather, both an imitation of nature.
My roarings are poured out — My lamentations are like the noise of the murmuring stream, or the dashings of the overswollen torrent.
