Job 6:7
My soul is refusing to touch! They [are] as my sickening food.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat.
In Context
6Eaten is an insipid thing without salt? Is there sense in the drivel of dreams?
8O that my request may come, That God may grant my hope!
Cross References
1 Kings 17:12And she saith, 'Jehovah thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but the fulness of the hand of meal in a pitcher, and a little oil in a dish; and lo, I am gathering two sticks, and have gone in and prepared it for myself, and for my son, and we have eaten it — and died.'
Job 3:24For before my food, my sighing cometh, And poured out as waters [are] my roarings.
Ezekiel 4:14And I say, 'Ah, Lord Jehovah, lo, my soul is not defiled, and carcase, and torn thing, I have not eaten from my youth, even till now; nor come into my mouth hath abominable flesh.'
Ezekiel 12:18'Son of man, thy bread in haste thou dost eat, and thy water with trembling and with fear thou dost 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 →