Matthew Poole and continuators on Job 3:24

24. For [my Sighing cometh before I eat, ] and [my Roarings ] [are poured out like the Waters. ]

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 Phrase is used, Psal. 72. 5. before the face of the Sun, &c. that is, as we translate it, as long as the Sun endureth,) I fall into bitter Passions of sighing and weeping, partly because my necessity and duty obligeth me to eat, and so to support this wretched Life, which I long to lose: and principall▪ because of my uninterrupted pains of Body and horrours of my Mind which mix themselves with my very Meat, and do not afford me one quiet moment. Compare Psal. 10[illegible: 1+ letters]. 9.

i. e. My loud outcries, more befitting a Lyon than a Man, which yet extremity of grief forceth from me. Compare Psal. 22. 1. and 32. 3.

i. e. With great abundance, and irresistible violence, and incessant continuance, as Waters flow in a River, or when they break the Banks, and overflow the ground.

Marginal references: Heb. [illegible: 1 word] my [illegible: 1 word] ▪