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

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

my sighing		Job 7:19; Psa 80:5; Psa 102:9
I eat		Heb. my meat
my roarings		Psa 22:1,2; Psa 32:3; Psa 38:8; Isa 59:11; Lam 3:8

Correlating Passages

my sighing

	Job 7:19	How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?
	Psa 80:5	Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.
	Psa 102:9	For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,

my roarings

	Psa 22:1	[[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?
	Psa 22:2	O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.
	Psa 32:3	When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.
	Psa 38:8	I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.
	Isa 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.
	Lam 3:8	Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.

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Scott, Thomas. "Job 3:24," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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