Job 6:7
That which my soul abhorreth to touch Hath become my loathsome food.
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat.
In Context
6Can that which is unsavory be eaten without salt? Is there any taste in the white of an egg?
8O that I might have my request, And that God would grant me that which I long for!
Cross References
Job 3:24For my sighing cometh before I eat, And my groans are poured out like water.
Ezekiel 4:14Then said I: Ah! Lord Jehovah, behold, I have never been polluted; for from my youth until now have I not eaten that which died of itself, or was torn in pieces; neither hath unclean food come into my mouth.
Ezekiel 12:18Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with carefulness;
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 →