Job 6:7
My soul hath refused to touch, Those things, are like disease in my food.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat.
In Context
6Can that which hath no savour be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?
8Oh that my request would come! and, my hope, oh that GOD would grant!
Cross References
1 Kings 17:12And she said—By the life of Yahweh, thy God, verily I have not a cake, only a handful of meal in the jar, and a little oil in the cruse,—and lo! I have been gathering a couple of sticks, so I shall go in and make it ready for me and for my son, that we may eat it—and die!
Job 3:24For, in the face of my food, my sighing, cometh in, and, poured out like the water, are my groans:
Ezekiel 4:14Then said, I, Ah! My Lord. Yahweh, lo! my person, hath not been defiled: neither of what hath died of itself nor of what hath been torn in pieces: have I eaten, from my youthful days even unto now, neither hath come into my mouth the flesh of a foul thing.
Ezekiel 12:18Son of man, Thy bread with trembling, shalt thou eat,— And, thy water in agitation and in fear, shalt thou drink.
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 →