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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 refuse to touch it; such food makes me sick.
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.
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 continued to increase. When these people had daughters, the sons of God saw how beautiful they were. So they chose the women they wanted. They married them, and the women had their children. Then the Lord said, "People are only human. I will not let my Spirit be troubled by them forever. I will let them live only 120 years." During this time and also later, the Nephilim people lived in the land. They have been famous as powerful soldiers since ancient times.
Two of every kind of bird, animal, and creeping thing will come to you so that you might keep them alive.
Noah did everything God commanded him.
But evil people are the Lord 's enemies, and they will be destroyed. Their valleys will dry up and burn. They will be destroyed completely.
Respect for the Lord will add years to your life, but the wicked will have their lives cut short.
The Lord has a plan for everything. In his plan, the wicked will be destroyed.
So the country is like someone crying for the dead, and all of its people are weak. Even the animals of the field, the birds of the sky, and the fish in the sea are dying.
I will destroy all the people and all the animals. I will destroy the birds in the air and the fish in the sea. I will destroy the evil people and everything that makes them sin. I will remove all people from the earth." This is what the Lord said.
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.
