Job 6:7
My soul is refusing to touch! They [are] as my sickening food.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat.
In Context
6Is an insipid thing eaten without salt? Is there sense in the drivel of dreams?
8O that my request may come, || That God may grant my hope!
Cross References
1 Kings 17:12And she says, “Your God YHWH lives, I do not have a cake, but the fullness of the hand of meal in a pitcher, and a little oil in a dish; and behold, I am gathering two sticks, and have gone in and prepared it for myself, and for my son, and we have eaten it—and died.”
Job 3:24For before my food, my sighing comes, || And my roarings [are] poured out as waters.
Ezekiel 4:14And I say, “Aah! Lord YHWH, behold, my soul is not defiled, and carcass, and torn thing, I have not eaten from my youth, even until now; nor has abominable flesh come into my mouth.”
Ezekiel 12:18“Son of man, eat your bread in haste, and drink your water with trembling and with fear;
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 →