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Job 6:7
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I refuse to touch them;they are like contaminated food.
My soul refuses to touch them; They are as loathsome food to me.
The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat.
My appetite refuses to touch them; they are as food that is loathsome to me.
I have refused to touch such things; they are like loathsome food to me.
"My soul refuses to touch them; Such things are like loathsome food to me [sickening and repugnant].
"My soul refuses to touch them; They are like loathsome food to me.
My soul refuses to touch them; They are as loathsome food to me.
Such things as my soule refused to touch, as were sorowes, are my meate.
My soul refuses to touch them;They are like loathsome food to me.
My soul refuses to touch them; they are loathsome food to me.
That's how my food tastes, and my appetite is gone.
I refuse to touch them; such food makes me sick.
What my soul refuseth to touch, that is as my loathsome food.
I refuse to touch that kind of food; it makes me sick!
My soul is weary of its troubles, I lament like a drunken man in my affliction.
I have no appetite for food like that, and everything I eat makes me sick.
I refused to touch them; they are like food that will make me ill.
My soul refuses to touch them; they are sickening food to me.
The thinges that sometyme I might not awaye withall, are now my meate for very sorow.
My soul refuseth to touch them; They are as loathsome food to me.
My soul has no desire for such things, they are as disease in my food.
The thinges that sometime I might not away withel, are nowe my meate for very sorowe.
My soul refuseth to touch them; they are as the sickness of my flesh.
The things that my soule refused to touch, are as my sorrowfull meat.
For my wrath cannot cease; for I perceive my food as the smell of a lion to be loathsome.
My soul refuseth to touch them; they are as loathsome meat to me.
tho thingis whiche my soule nolde touche bifore, ben now my meetis for angwisch.
My soul refuses to touch [them]; They are as loathsome food to me.
The things [that] my soul refused to touch [are] as my sorrowful food.
My soul refuses to touch them; They are as loathsome food to me.
My appetite disappears when I look at it; I gag at the thought of eating it!
My soul will not touch them. They are like hated food to me.
My appetite refuses to touch them; they are like food that is loathsome to me.
My soul hath refused to touch, Those things, are like disease in my food.
The things which before my soul would not touch, now, through anguish, are my meats.
My appetite refuses to touch them; they are as food that is loathsome to me.
My soul is refusing to touch! They [are] as my sickening food.
"My soul refuses to touch them; They are like loathsome food to me.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
as my sorrowful meat: 1 Kings 17:12, 1 Kings 22:27, Psalms 102:9, Ezekiel 4:14, Ezekiel 4:16, Ezekiel 12:18, Ezekiel 12:19, Daniel 10:3
Reciprocal: Job 12:3 - I am not inferior to you Psalms 80:5 - General Proverbs 27:7 - to
Cross-References
The number of people on earth began to grow, and daughters were born to them.
When the sons of God saw that these girls were beautiful, they married any of them they chose.
The Lord said, "My Spirit will not remain in human beings forever, because they are flesh. They will live only 120 years."
The Nephilim were on the earth in those days and also later. That was when the sons of God had sexual relations with the daughters of human beings. These women gave birth to children, who became famous and were the mighty warriors of long ago.
Two of every kind of bird, animal, and crawling thing will come to you to be kept alive.
Noah did everything that God commanded him.
But the wicked will die. The Lord 's enemies will be like the flowers of the fields; they will disappear like smoke.
Whoever respects the Lord will have a long life, but the life of an evil person will be cut short.
The Lord makes everything go as he pleases. He has even prepared a day of disaster for evil people.
Because of this the land dries up, and all its people are dying. Even the wild animals and the birds of the air and the fish of the sea are dying.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
The things [that] my soul refused to touch [are] as my sorrowful meat. Meaning either the above things, that which is unsavoury, and the white of an egg, of any other food, which in the time of his prosperity he would not touch with his fingers, much less eat, but now was glad of, and were his constant food in his present sorrowful circumstances; the sense given by some Jewish writers i is, that what he disdained to touch or wipe his hands with formerly, he was glad to make use of as a tablecloth to eat his bread of sorrow upon; but it rather intends the insipid and disagreeable words of his friends, their doctrines, instructions, and exhortations they gave him, but were refused and rejected by him; and which he before compares to unsavoury food, the white of an egg, or the spittle of a dreaming man, or the dribble of a fool; and which were as much loathed and nauseated by him, as his food that was "loathed" by him k, either because of his want of appetite, or because of the badness of it, such as were corrupt and "rotten", and even as the "excrements" of food l; those he refused to receive with as much indignation as he could such sort of food offered him; and therefore we find, that notwithstanding all that had been said to him, he continued in the same sentiment and disposition of mind, to desire death rather than life, as follows.
i Jarchi & R. Mesallem in ib. k כדוי לחמי "ut fastidia pannis mei", Cocceius. l "Velut excrement um panis", Neuman. apud Michael.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The things that my soul refused to touch - That I refused to touch - the word “soul” here being used to denote himself. The idea here is, that those things which formerly were objects of loathing to him, had become his painful and distressing food. The idea may be either that he was reduced to the greatest pain and distress in partaking of his food, since he loathed that which he was obliged to eat (compare notes, Job 3:24), or more probably his calamity is described under the image of loathsome food in accordance with the Oriental usage, by which one is said to eat or taste anything; that is, to experience it. His sorrows were as sickening to him as the articles of food which he had mentioned were to the stomach. The Septuagint renders it strangely, “For my wrath - μοῦ ἡ ὀργή mou hē orgē - cannot cease. For I see my food offensive as the smell of a lion’ - ὥσπερ ὀσμὴν λέοντος hōsper osmēn leontos.
