KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Job 3:24–25
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Job 3:24
24For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.
24For my sighing commeth †before I eate, and my roarings are powred out like the waters.
- Heb. before my meat.
Job 3:25
25For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.
25For †the thing which I greatly feared is come vpon me, and that which I was afraid of, is come vnto me.
- Heb. I feared a feare, and it came vpon me.
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DEFINED WORDS
Job 3:24
An audible or inward expression of grief, distress, or oppression.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Earlier than in time; in front of; in the presence of; or prior in order or rank, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
To take food into the body; to consume, devour, or waste away, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Crying like a bull or lion; uttering a deep loud sound.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828
Sent forth; thrown.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Outside, away from within, forth, absent, or no longer in a stated condition.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Similar or of the same kind; in the same manner; likely; or, as a verb, to please.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828
DEFINED WORDS
Job 3:25
Fearful or apprehensive.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
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Open the full verse study9For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,
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Open the full verse study3My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?
4When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday.
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Open the full verse study5Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.
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Open the full verse study8I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.
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Open the full verse study11We 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.
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Open the full verse study20So that his life abhorreth bread, and his soul dainty meat.
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Open the full verse study7The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat.
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Open the full verse study19How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?
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Open the full verse study8Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
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Open the full verse study1MY God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?
2O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.
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Open the full verse study3When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.
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Open the full verse study5And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all: for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually.
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Open the full verse study15Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.
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Open the full verse study23For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure.
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