Job 6:7
The things that my nefesh refused to touch 1 are like my loathsome lechem. 1
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat.
In Context
8Who will grant that I might have my she'elah (request); 1 oh that Eloah would grant me my tikveh! 1
Cross References
1 Kings 17:12And she said, As Hashem Eloheicha liveth, I have nothing baked, but an handful of meal in a pot, and a little shemen in a jug; and, see, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in, cook it for me and beni, that we may eat it, and die.
Job 3:24For the pachad (terror) which I greatly feared is come upon me, 1 and that which I dreaded is come unto me. 1
Ezekiel 4:14Then said I, Not so Adonoi Hashem! Hinei, my nefesh hath not been made tuma'ah for from my youth up even till now have I not eaten nevelah or trefah; neither came there basar piggul into my mouth.
Ezekiel 12:18Ben adam, eat thy lechem with fearful shaking, and drink thy mayim with trembling and with 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 →