Job 6:7
My soul refuses to touch them; they are loathsome food to me.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat.
In Context
6Is tasteless food eaten without salt, or is there flavor in the white of an egg?
8If only my request were granted and God would fulfill my hope:
Cross References
1 Kings 17:12But she replied, “As surely as the LORD your God lives, I have no bread—only a handful of flour in a jar and a little oil in a jug. Look, I am gathering a couple of sticks to take home and prepare a meal for myself and my son, so that we may eat it and die.”
Job 3:24I sigh when food is put before me, and my groans pour out like water.
Ezekiel 4:14“Ah, Lord GOD,” I said, “I have never defiled myself. From my youth until now I have not eaten anything found dead or mauled by wild beasts. No unclean meat has ever entered my mouth.”
Ezekiel 12:18“Son of man, eat your bread with trembling, and drink your water with quivering and 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 →