Job 3:24
Old Testament • 8 words with Strong's data
"For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters."
Word-by-Word Analysis
בּוֹא
bôwʼ
to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
פָּנִים
pânîym
the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposi...
אָכַל
ʼâkal
to eat (literally or figuratively)
יָצַק
yâtsaq
properly, to pour out (transitive or intransitive); by implication, to melt or cast as metal; by extension, to place firmly, to stiffen or grow hard
דָּמָה
dâmâh
to compare; by implication, to resemble, liken, consider
מַיִם
mayim
water; figuratively, juice; by euphemism, urine, semen
Key Terms in This Verse
יָצַק yâtsaq
properly, to pour out (transitive or intransitive); by implication, to melt or cast as metal; by extension, to place firmly, to stiffen or grow hard
Study H3332 →פָּנִים pânîym
the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposition (before, etc.)
Study H6440 →Cross References
For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,
Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.
I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.
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.
So that his life abhorreth bread, and his soul dainty meat.
When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.
The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat.
How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?
Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
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