Job 6:7
My soul refuses to touch them. They are as loathsome food to me.
World English Bible Classic
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 flavor be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?
8“Oh that I might have my request, that God would grant the thing that I long for,
Cross References
1 Kings 17:12She said, “As the LORD your God lives, I don’t have anything baked, but only a handful of meal in a jar and a little oil in a jar. Behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and bake it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.”
Job 3:24For my sighing comes before I eat. My groanings are poured out like water.
Ezekiel 4:14Then I said, “Ah Lord GOD! Behold, my soul has not been polluted; for from my youth up even until now I have not eaten of that which dies of itself, or is torn of animals. No abominable meat has come into my mouth!”
Ezekiel 12:18“Son of man, eat your bread with quaking, and drink your water with trembling and with fearfulness.
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 →