Job 6:7
Such things as my soule refused to touch, as were sorowes, are my meate.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat.
In Context
8Oh that I might haue my desire, and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!
Cross References
1 Kings 17:12And shee sayde, As the Lord thy God liueth, I haue not a cake, but euen an handfull of meale in a barrel, and a litle oyle in a cruse: and behold, I am gathering a fewe stickes for to go in, and dresse it for me and my sonne, that we may eate it, and dye.
Job 3:24For my sighing commeth before I eate, and my roarings are powred out like the water.
Ezekiel 4:14Then said I, Ah, Lord God, beholde, my soule hath not bene polluted: for from my youth vp, euen vnto this houre, I haue not eaten of a thing dead, or torne in pieces, neither came there any vncleane flesh in my mouth.
Ezekiel 12:18Sonne of man, eate thy bread with trembling and drinke thy water with trouble, and with carefulnesse,
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 →