Job 33:20 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁰ so that their lives loathe bread and their appetites dainty food.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁰ So that his life abhorreth bread, And his soul dainty meat.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ So that his desire makes him loathe food, and even dainty dishes [nauseate him].

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁰ So that his life abhorreth bread, And his soul dainty food.

Common English Bible

²⁰ until a person loathes food, an appetite rejects a delicacy;

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ Bread becomes abominable to him in his life, and, to his soul, the meat which before he desired.

Job 33:20 Cross References

Amos 5:11

Therefore because you trample on the poor and take from them levies of grain, you have built houses of hewn stone, but you shall not live in them; you have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine.

Jeremiah 3:19

I thought how I would set you among my children and give you a pleasant land, the most beautiful heritage of all the nations. And I thought you would call to me, “My Father,” and would not turn from following me.

Job 3:24

For my sighing comes like my bread, and my groanings are poured out like water.

Genesis 3:6

So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food and that it was a delight to the eyes and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate.

Job 6:7

My appetite refuses to touch them; they are like food that is loathsome to me.

Psalm 102:4

My heart is stricken and withered like grass; I am too wasted to eat my bread.