Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
My soul refuses to touch [them]. They are as loathsome food to me.
New American Standard Bible
They are like loathsome food to me.
King James Version
The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat.
Holman Bible
they are like contaminated food.
International Standard Version
I cannot bring myself to touch them; food like this makes me sick."
American Standard Version
My soul refuseth to touch them ; They are as loathsome food to me.
Amplified
“My soul refuses to touch them;
Such things are like loathsome food to me [sickening and repugnant].
Bible in Basic English
My soul has no desire for such things, they are as disease in my food.
Darby Translation
What my soul refuseth to touch, that is as my loathsome food.
Julia Smith Translation
My soul refused to touch these as the loathsomeness of my bread.
King James 2000
The things that my soul refused to touch are as loathsome food to me.
Lexham Expanded Bible
{I refused} to touch [them]; they [are] like {food that will make me ill}.
Modern King James verseion
My soul refuses to touch them; they are sickening food to me.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
The things that sometime I might not away withal, are now my meat for very sorrow.
NET Bible
I have refused to touch such things; they are like loathsome food to me.
New Heart English Bible
My soul refuses to touch them. They are as loathsome food to me.
The Emphasized Bible
My soul hath refused to touch, Those things, are like disease in my food.
Webster
The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful food.
World English Bible
My soul refuses to touch them. They are as loathsome food to me.
Youngs Literal Translation
My soul is refusing to touch! They are as my sickening food.
Topics
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Nephesh
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 6:7
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Second Speech: A Response To Eliphaz
6 Can that which has no savor be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg? 7 My soul refuses to touch [them]. They are as loathsome food to me. 8 O that I might have my request, and that God would grant [me] the thing that I long for!
Cross References
1 Kings 17:12
And she said, As LORD thy God lives, I do not have a cake, but a handful of meal in the jar, 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,
1 Kings 22:27
and say, Thus says 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 comes before I eat, and my groanings are poured out like water.
Psalm 102:9
For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,
Ezekiel 4:14
Then I said, Ah lord LORD! Behold, my soul has not been polluted. For from my youth up even till now I have not eaten of that which dies of itself, or is torn of beasts, neither has abominable flesh come into my mouth.
Ezekiel 4:16
Moreover he said to me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem, and they shall eat bread by weight, and with fearfulness, and they shall drink water by measure, and in dismay,
Ezekiel 12:18-19
Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with fearfulness.
Daniel 10:3
I ate no pleasant bread. Neither flesh nor wine came into my mouth. Neither did I anoint myself at all, till three whole weeks were fulfilled.