Parallel Verses

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.

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

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
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 is tasteless be eaten without salt, or is there any taste in the juice of the mallow? 7 “My soul refuses to touch them;
They are like loathsome food to me.
8 "Oh that I might have my request, and that God would fulfill my hope,

Cross References

1 Kings 17:12

And she said, "As the LORD your God lives, I have nothing baked, only a handful of flour in a jar and a little oil in a jug. And now I am gathering a couple of sticks that I may go in and prepare it for myself and my son, that we may eat it and die."

1 Kings 22:27

and say, 'Thus says the king, "Put this fellow in prison and feed him meager rations of bread and water, until I come in peace."'"

Job 3:24

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

Psalm 102:9

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

Ezekiel 4:14

Then I said, "Ah, Lord GOD! Behold, I have never defiled myself.From my youth up till now I have never eaten what died of itself or was torn by beasts, nor has tainted meat come into my mouth."

Ezekiel 4:16

Moreover, he said to me, "Son of man, behold, I will break the supply of bread in Jerusalem. They shall eat bread by weight and with anxiety, and they shall drink water by measure and in dismay.

Ezekiel 12:18-19

"Son of man, eat your bread with quaking, and drink water with trembling and with anxiety.

Daniel 10:3

I ate no delicacies, no meat or wine entered my mouth, nor did I anoint myself at all, for the full three weeks.

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