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OET (OET-LV) If/because to_(the)_face_of/in_front_of/before food_my sighing_my it_comes and_pour_out like_THE_water groanings_my.
OET (OET-RV) ⇔ Sighing has become more important than eating.
⇔ ≈My groans just pour out like water.
Note 1 topic: grammar-connect-words-phrases
כִּֽי
that/for/because/then/when
Job is using the word For to introduce the reason why he asked in the preceding verses why God would give life to a person who is as miserable as he is. If it would be helpful to your readers, you could indicate this in your translation. Alternate translation: “I have asked all this because”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
לִפְנֵ֣י לַ֭חְמִי אַנְחָתִ֣י תָבֹ֑א
to=(the)_face_of/in_front_of/before food,my sighing,my comes
The word before could mean implicitly: (1) that Job’s sighing comes in place of his food. Alternate translation: “I am too sad to eat” (2) that Job’s sighing comes first and his food comes afterwards. Alternate translation: “I cannot eat without sighing first”
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / simile
וַֽיִּתְּכ֥וּ כַ֝מַּ֗יִם שַׁאֲגֹתָֽי
and,pour_out like_THE,water groanings,my
The point of this comparison is that just as waters (those of a river, for example) flow greatly and powerfully, so Job is groaning greatly and powerfully. If it would be helpful in your language, you could make this point explicitly. Alternate translation: “and I am groaning very greatly”
3:1-26 Job’s outburst did not mean that his integrity had cracked under the strain (42:7-8; Jas 5:11). Elijah and Jeremiah, both godly men, used the same hyperbolic language (1 Kgs 19:4; Jer 20:14-18).
OET (OET-LV) If/because to_(the)_face_of/in_front_of/before food_my sighing_my it_comes and_pour_out like_THE_water groanings_my.
OET (OET-RV) ⇔ Sighing has become more important than eating.
⇔ ≈My groans just pour out like water.
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Greek words that they’re translated from.