Job 6:7
Good News Translation
I have no appetite for food like that, and everything I eat makes me sick.

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

Contemporary English Version
That's how my food tastes, and my appetite is gone. *

New American Bible
I refuse to touch them; they are like loathsome food to me.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The things which before my soul would not touch, now, through anguish, are my meats.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

as my sorrowful meat.

1 Kings 17:12 And she answered: As the Lord thy God liveth, I have no bread, but only a handful of meal in a pot, and a little oil in a cruise: 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 tell them: Thus saith the king: Put this man in prison, and feed him with bread of affliction, and water of distress till I return in peace.

Psalm 102:9 For I did eat ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping.

Ezekiel 4:14,16 And I said: Ah, ah, ah, O Lord God, behold my soul hath not been defiled, and from my infancy even till now, I have not eaten any thing that died of itself, or was torn by beasts, and no unclean flesh hath entered into my mouth. . . .

Ezekiel 12:18,19 Son of man, eat thy bread in trouble and drink thy water in hurry and sorrow. . . .

Daniel 10:3 I ate no desirable bread, and neither flesh, nor wine, entered into my mouth, neither was I anointed with ointment: till the days of three weeks were accomplished.

Context
Job Replies: My Complaint is Just
6Or can an unsavoury thing be eaten, that is not seasoned with salt? or can a man taste that which, when tasted, bringeth death? 7The things which before my soul would not touch, now, through anguish, are my meats.8Who will grant that my request may come: and that God may give me what I look for?…
Cross References
Job 3:24
Before I eat I sigh: and as overflowing waters, so is my roaring:

Job 6:6
Or can an unsavoury thing be eaten, that is not seasoned with salt? or can a man taste that which, when tasted, bringeth death?

Job 6:8
Who will grant that my request may come: and that God may give me what I look for?

Job 33:20
Bread becometh abominable to him in his life, and to his soul the meat which before he desired.

Job 6:6
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