SEV Biblia, Chapter 3:24
Porque antes que mi pan, viene mi suspiro; y mis gemidos corren como aguas.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Job 3:24
Verse 24. For my sighing cometh ] Some think that this refers to the ulcerated state of Job's body, mouth, hands, &c. He longed for food, but was not able to lift it to his mouth with his hands, nor masticate it when brought thither. This is the sense in which Origen has taken the words. But perhaps it is most natural to suppose that he means his sighing took away all appetite, and served him in place of meat. There is the same thought in Psa. xlii. 3: My tears have been my meat day and night; which place is not an imitation of Job, but more likely Job an imitation of it, or, rather, both an imitation of nature.
My roarings are poured out ] My lamentations are like the noise of the murmuring stream, or the dashings of the overswollen torrent.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 20-26 - Job was like a man who had lost his way, and had no prospect of escape or hope of better times. But surely he was in an ill frame for deat when so unwilling to live. Let it be our constant care to get ready for another world, and then leave it to God to order our removal thither a he thinks fit. Grace teaches us in the midst of life's greates comforts, to be willing to die, and in the midst of its greates crosses, to be willing to live. Job's way was hid; he knew no wherefore God contended with him. The afflicted and tempted Christia knows something of this heaviness; when he has been looking too much a the things that are seen, some chastisement of his heavenly Father wil give him a taste of this disgust of life, and a glance at these dar regions of despair. Nor is there any help until God shall restore to him the joys of his salvation. Blessed be God, the earth is full of his goodness, though full of man's wickedness. This life may be mad tolerable if we attend to our duty. We look for eternal mercy, i willing to receive Christ as our Saviour __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
כי 3588 לפני 6440 לחמי 3899 אנחתי 585 תבא 935 ויתכו 5413 כמים 4325 שׁאגתי׃ 7581
