my sighing: Job 7:19; Psalms 80:5, Psalms 102:9
I eat: Heb. my meat
my roarings: Psalms 22:1-2, Psalms 32:3, Psalms 38:8; Isaiah 59:11; Lamentations 3:8
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Job 3:24
Job 3:24
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