Job 6:7
I refuse to touch them; 1 they are like disgusting food to me. 1
Unlocked Literal Bible
In The King James Version
The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat.
In Context
6Can that which has no taste be eaten without salt? 1 Or is there any taste in the white of an egg? 1
8Oh, that I might have my request; 1 oh, that God would grant me the thing I long for: 1
Cross References
1 Kings 17:12She replied, “As Yahweh your God lives, I do not have any bread, but only a handful of meal in a jar and a little oil in a jug. See, I am gathering two sticks so I may go in and cook it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.”
Job 3:24For my sighing happens instead of eating; 1 my groaning is poured out like water. 1
Ezekiel 4:14But I said, “Alas, Lord Yahweh! I have never been unclean! I have never eaten either anything that died or anything killed by animals, from my youth until now, and foul meat has never entered my mouth!”
Ezekiel 12:18“Son of man, eat your bread with trembling, and drink your water with shaking and worry.
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 →