Job 6:7
For my wrath cannot cease; 1 For I perceive my food as the smell of a lion to be loathsome. 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat.
In Context
6Shall bread be eaten without salt? 1 Or again, is there taste in empty words? 1
Cross References
1 Kings 17:12And the woman said, As the Lord thy God lives, I have not a cake, but only a handful of meal in the pitcher, and a little oil in a cruse, and, behold, I am going to gather two sticks, and I shall go in and dress it for myself and my children, and we shall eat it and die.
Job 3:24For my groaning comes before my food, 1 And I weep being beset with terror. 1
Ezekiel 4:14Then I said, Not so, Lord God of Israel: surely my soul has not been defiled with uncleanness; nor have I eaten that which died of itself or was torn of beasts from my birth until now; neither has any corrupt flesh entered into my mouth.
Ezekiel 12:18Son of man, eat thy bread with sorrow, and drink thy water with torment and affliction.
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 →