Job 6:7 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

More versions

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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁷ The things which before my soul would not touch, now, through anguish are my meats.

Job 6:7 Cross References

1 Kings 17:12

And she said, As the LORD thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in the barrel, and a little oil in the cruse: and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.

1 Kings 22:27

and say, Thus saith the king, Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I come in peace.

Job 3:24

For my sighing cometh before I eat, And my roarings are poured out like water

Job 33:20

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

Job 6:6

Can that which hath no savour be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?

Job 6:8

Oh that I might have my request; And that God would grant me the thing that I long for.

Psalm 102:9

For I have eaten ashes like bread, And mingled my drink with weeping.

Ezekiel 4:14

Then said I, Ah Lord GOD behold, my soul hath not been polluted: for from my youth up even till now have I not eaten of that which dieth of itself, or is torn of beasts; neither came there abominable flesh into my mouth;

Ezekiel 4:16

Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with carefulness; and they shall drink water by measure, and with astonishment:

Daniel 10:3

I ate no pleasant bread, neither came flesh nor wine in my mouth, neither did I anoint myself at all, till three whole weeks were fulfilled.