Job 6:7
My soul refuses to touch [them]. They are as loathsome food to me.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat.
In Context
6Can that which has no savor be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?
8O that I might have my request, and that God would grant [me] the thing that I long for!
Cross References
1 Kings 17:12And she said, As LORD thy God lives, I do not have a cake, but a handful of meal in the jar, and a little oil in the cruse. And, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son that we may eat it,
Job 3:24For my sighing comes before I eat, and my groanings are poured out like water.
Ezekiel 4:14Then I said, Ah lord LORD! Behold, my soul has not been polluted. For from my youth up even till now I have not eaten of that which dies of itself, or is torn of beasts, neither has abominable flesh come into my mouth.
Ezekiel 12:18Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with fearfulness.
Matthew Henry on Job 6:2-8
Job's Reply to Eliphaz. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 But Job answered and said, 2 Oh that my grief were thoroughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together! 3 For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up. 4 For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me. 5 Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder? 6 Can that which is unsavoury be eaten… Read the whole commentary →