Job 6:7
My soul refuseth to touch them; they are as the sickness of my flesh.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat.
In Context
6Can that which hath no savour be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the juice of mallows?
8Oh 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 the LORD thy God liveth, I have not a cake, only 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, and die.'
Job 3:24For my sighing cometh instead of my food, and my roarings are poured out like water.
Ezekiel 4:14Then said I: 'Ah Lord GOD! behold, my soul hath not been polluted; for from my youth up even till now have I not eaten of that which dieth of itself, or is torn of beasts; neither came there abhorred flesh into my mouth.'
Ezekiel 12:18'Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with anxiety;
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 →