Job 3:24

Job · Old Testament · Chapter 3

“For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.”Job 3:24

What Does Job 3:24 Mean?

Job 3:24 is found in the book of Job, chapter 3, verse 24 of the Old Testament. This verse connects to 16 other passages through cross-references, placing it within a rich network of biblical meaning.

Cross-References (16)

These passages are connected to Job 3:24 through shared themes, quotations, or prophetic fulfillment.

Psalms 22:1“My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?”Psalms 38:8“I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.”Psalms 102:9“For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,”Psalms 31:10“For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.”Psalms 42:3“My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?”Psalms 80:5“Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.”Job 7:20“I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to myself?”Job 30:16“And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.”Job 33:20“So that his life abhorreth bread, and his soul dainty meat.”Lamentations 2:19“Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the LORD: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street.”Job 6:7“The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat.”Job 7:19“How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?”Psalms 32:3“When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.”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 shutteth out my prayer.”Ezekiel 12:18“Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with carefulness;”

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