Parallel Verses

The Emphasized Bible

My soul hath refused to touch, Those things, are like disease in my food.

New American Standard Bible

“My soul refuses to touch them;
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

I refuse to touch them;
they are like contaminated food.

International Standard Version

I cannot bring myself to touch them; food like this makes me sick."

A Conservative Version

My soul refuses to touch [them]. They are as loathsome food to me.

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.

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

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
The things that my soul
נפשׁ 
Nephesh 
Usage: 753

מאן 
Ma'en 
Usage: 41

to touch
נגע 
Naga` 
Usage: 150

are as my sorrowful
דּוי 
D@vay 
Usage: 2

Verse Info

Context Readings

Job's Second Speech: A Response To Eliphaz

6 Can that which hath no savour be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg? 7 My soul hath refused to touch, Those things, are like disease in my food. 8 Oh that my request would come! and, my hope, oh that GOD would grant!


Cross References

1 Kings 17:12

And she said - By the life of Yahweh, thy God, verily I have not a cake, only a handful of meal in the jar, and a little oil in the cruse, - and lo! I have been gathering a couple of sticks, so I shall go in and make it ready for me and for my son, that we may eat it - and die!

1 Kings 22:27

and thou shalt say - Thus, saith the king, Put this man into the prison, - and let him eat the bread of oppression, with the water of oppression, until I enter in peace.

Job 3:24

For, in the face of my food, my sighing, cometh in, and, poured out like the water, are my groans:

Psalm 102:9

For, ashes - like bread, have I eaten, And, my drink - with my tears, have I mingled;

Ezekiel 4:14

Then said, I, Ah! My Lord. Yahweh, lo! my person, hath not been defiled: neither of what hath died of itself nor of what hath been torn in pieces: have I eaten, from my youthful days even unto now, neither hath come into my mouth the flesh of a foul thing.

Ezekiel 4:16

And he said unto me, Son of man Behold me! breaking the staff of bread in Jerusalem, So shall they eat bread by weight and with anxious care, And water by measure, and in astonishment, shall they drink:

Ezekiel 12:18-19

Son of man, Thy bread, with trembling, shalt thou eat, - And thy water, in agitation and in fear, shalt thou drink.

Daniel 10:3

food to delight in, did I not eat, neither flesh nor wine, came into my mouth, nor did I so much as, anoint, myself, - until were fulfilled three sevens of days.

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