Job 3:25
Good News Translation
Everything I fear and dread comes true.

New Revised Standard Version
Truly the thing that I fear comes upon me, and what I dread befalls me.

Contemporary English Version
and my worst fears have all come true.

New American Bible
For what I feared overtakes me; what I dreaded comes upon me.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For the fear which I feared, hath come upon me: and that which I was afraid of, hath befallen me.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For the fear which I feared, hath come upon me: and that which I was afraid of, hath befallen me.

the thing, etc.

Job 1:5 And when the days of their feasting were gone about, Job sent to them, and sanctified them: and rising up early, offered holocausts for every one of them. For he said: Lest perhaps my sons have sinned, and have blessed God in their hearts. So did Job all days.

Job 31:23 For I have always feared God as waves swelling over me, and his weight I was unable to bear.

Context
Job Laments His Birth
24Before I eat I sigh: and as overflowing waters, so is my roaring: 25For the fear which I feared, hath come upon me: and that which I was afraid of, hath befallen me.26Have I not dissembled? have I not kept silence? have I not been quiet? and indignation is come upon me.…
Cross References
Job 9:28
I feared all my works, knowing that thou didst not spare the offender.

Job 30:15
I am brought to nothing: as a wind thou hast taken away my desire: and my prosperity hath passed away like a cloud.

Job 30:26
I expected good things, and evils are come upon me: I waited for light, and darkness broke out.

Ezekiel 11:8
You have feared the sword, and I will bring the sword upon you, saith the Lord God.

Job 3:24
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