Job 3:24

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 nothing but sighing and sobbing, so that he had no…

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 to Psa 42:3, as an illustration: My tears are my meat…

Job, finding it to no purpose to wish either that he had not been born or had died as soon as he was born, here complains that his life was now continued and not cut off. When men are set on…

before I eat lit. before my meat, as margin. The temporal meaning of beforegives no sense here. In 1Sa 1:16 the same expression occurs, "Count not thine handmaid fora daughter of Belial." Therefore…