Job 6:7
The things which before my soul would not touch, now, through anguish are my meats.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 request may come: and that God may give me what I look for?
Cross References
1 Kings 17:12And she answered: As the Lord thy God liveth, I have no bread, but only a handful of meal in a pot, and a little oil in a cruse: behold I am gathering two sticks that I may go in and dress it, for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.
Job 3:24Before I eat I sigh: and as overflowing waters, so is my roaring:
Ezekiel 4:14And I said: Ah, ah, ah, O Lord God, behold my soul hath not been defiled, and from my infancy even till now, I have not eaten any thing that died of itself, or was torn by beasts, and no unclean flesh hath entered into my mouth.
Ezekiel 12:18Son of man, eat thy bread in trouble: and drink thy water in hurry and 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 →