Job 3:24

Isaiah 59:11; Job 7:19; Lamentations 3:8; Psalms 102:9; Psalms 22:1; Psalms 22:2; Psalms 32:3; Psalms 38:8; Psalms 80:5

Related Commentaries of Job 3:24

Albert 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 t...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Why does God continue life to the wretch who longs for death? Job's words again rise to a passionate intensity. The vision of the peacefulness of dea...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

I eat . my food.
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters. For my sighing cometh - Some think that this refers to the ulcera...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

For my sighing cometh before I eat— My groaning cometh like my daily bread. Heath. In presence of my meat, or at my meals, says Peters. And...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters. My sighing cometh before I eat - i:e., prevents my eating...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Job Curses his Day Job curses the day of his birth. He asks why he did not die at birth: why should his wretched life be prolonged? We are now co...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Translate, 'For my sighings are instead of my eating, and my groans are poured out like drink': cp. Psalms 42:3 . 25, 26. The verbs should all be...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

VI. THE CRY FROM THE DEPTH Job 3:1-26 Job SPEAKS WHILE the friends of Job sat beside him that dreary week of silence, each of them was medita...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Is Life Worth Living? Job 3:1-26 In the closing paragraphs of the previous chapter three friends arrive. Teman is Edom; for Shuah see Genesis...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Silent sympathy always creates an opportunity for grief to express itself. Job's outcry was undoubtedly an answer to their sympathy. So far, it was g...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(20) В¶ Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul; (21) Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig fo...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire 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 nothin...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters. Ver. 24. For my sighing cometh before I eat ] It cometh unsent...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

For my sighing cometh before I eat Hebrew, before the face of my bread. Instead of enjoying the satisfaction of being refreshed with the common n...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

JOB'S BITTER COMPLAINT (vv.1-26) Though Job would not dare to curse God for his trouble, yet it seems that the presence of his friends only caus...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

20 Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul; 21 Which long for death, but it cometh not; and...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Before I eat, Heb. before the face of my bread , i.e. either when I am going to eat, or rather, all the time whilst I am eating, (for so this phra...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Notes Job 3:5 . “ Let the blackness of the day terrify it .” Margin, “ Let them terrify it as those who have a bitter day ” The expression כִּמרִ...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 3:1 . After this opened Job his mouth. The Masoretic Jews, as well as our modern divines, seem agreed that Job now began the drama, and spak...
The Biblical Illustrator

After this opened Job his month, and cursed his day. The peril of impulsive speech In regard to this chapter, containing the first speech of Jo...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION The "Historical Introduction" ended, we come upon a long colloquy, in which the several dramatis personae speak for themselves, the...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job Longs for Death
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

For my sighing cometh before I eat, instead of eating and enjoying his food he is constrained to groan in his misery, and my roarings are poured out...
Wells of Living Water Commentary

Job's Sorrows and Sighs Job 2:9-13 ; Job 3:1-26 INTRODUCTORY WORDS In this study we will consider the verses which lie in the second chapter...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Before, &c. — Heb. before the face of my bread, all the time I am eating, I fall into sighing and weeping, because I am obliged to eat, and to...

²⁴ For my sighing cometh before I eat,f and my roarings are poured out like the waters.

Related Commentaries of Job 3:24

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wells of Living Water Commentary

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Job 3:24