Job 6:7 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁷ My appetite refuses to touch them; they are like food that is loathsome to me.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ The things that my soul refused to touch Are as my sorrowful meat.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ [These afflictions] my soul refuses to touch! Such things are like diseased food to me [sickening and repugnant]!

American Standard Version (1901)

⁷ My soul refuseth to touch them; They are as loathsome food to me.

Common English Bible

⁷ I refuse to touch them; they resemble food for the sick.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ The things that my soul was unwilling to touch before, now, because of anguish, are my foods.

Job 6:7 Cross References

Daniel 10:3

I had eaten no rich food, no meat or wine had entered my mouth, and I had not anointed myself at all, for the full three weeks.

Ezekiel 4:16

Then he said to me, “Mortal, I am going to cut off the supply of bread in Jerusalem; they shall eat bread by weight and with fearfulness, and they shall drink water by measure and in dismay.

Ezekiel 4:14

Then I said, “Ah Lord God! I have never defiled myself; from my youth up until now I have never eaten what died of itself or was torn by animals, nor has carrion flesh come into my mouth.”

Psalm 102:9

Indeed, I eat ashes like bread and mingle tears with my drink,

Job 3:24

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

1 Kings 22:27

and say: Thus says the king: Put this fellow in prison, and feed him on reduced rations of bread and water until I come in peace.”

1 Kings 17:12

But she said, “As the Lord your God lives, I have nothing baked, only a handful of meal in a jar and a little oil in a jug; I am now gathering a couple of sticks so that I may go home and prepare it for myself and my son, that we may eat it and die.”

Job 6:6

Can that which is tasteless be eaten without salt, or is there any flavor in the juice of mallows?

Job 6:8

“O that I might have my request and that God would grant my desire,

Job 33:20

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