Job 6:7
The things that my soul was unwilling to touch before, now, because of anguish, are my foods.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat.
In Context
8Who will grant that my petition may arrive and that God may bestow on me what I expect,
Cross References
1 Kings 17:12And she responded: “As the Lord your God lives, I have no bread, except a handful of flour in a jar, and a little oil in a bottle. See, I am collecting a couple of sticks, so that I may go in and make it for myself and my son, so that we may eat it and die.”
Job 3:24Before I eat, I sigh; and like overflowing waters, so is my howl,
Ezekiel 4:14And I said: “Alas, alas, alas, O Lord God! Behold, my soul has not been polluted, and from my infancy even until now, I have not eaten anything that has died of itself, nor that which has been torn up by beasts, and no unclean flesh at all has entered into my mouth.”
Ezekiel 12:18“Son of man, eat your bread in consternation. Moreover, drink your water hurriedly and in sorrow.
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 →