Job 6:7
My soul refuseth to touch them: they are unto me like disgusting food.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat.
In Context
6Is ever tasteless food eaten without salt? or is there any flavor in the white of an egg?
Cross References
1 Kings 17:12And she said, As the Lord thy God liveth, I have nothing baked, but a handful of meal in a jar, and a little oil in a cruise: and, behold, I am gathering a couple of sticks, that I may go in and prepare it for me and my son; and when we have eaten it, we shall have to die.
Job 3:24For before my food cometh my groaning, and like the water are poured forth my loud complaints.
Ezekiel 4:14Then said I, Ah Lord Eternal! behold, my soul hath not been defiled; and that which dieth of itself, or is torn in pieces, have I never eaten from my youth up even until now; and never is flesh of abomination come into my mouth.
Ezekiel 12:18Son of man, thy bread shalt thou eat with quaking, and thy water shalt thou drink with trembling and with anxious care.
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 →