Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
My soul refused to touch these as the loathsomeness of my bread.
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."
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.
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
Nephesh
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 6:7
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Second Speech: A Response To Eliphaz
6 Shall that unseasoned be eaten without salt? if there is taste in purslain slime? 7 My soul refused to touch these as the loathsomeness of my bread. 8 Who will give my asking shall come? and will God give my expectation?
Cross References
1 Kings 17:12
And she will say, Jehovah thy God lives, if there is to me a cake, but a handful of flour in a bucket, and a little oil in a cruse: and behold me gathering two woods, and I went to do it for me and for my son, and we shall eat and die.
1 Kings 22:27
And say, Thus said the king, Put this in the house of shutting up, and cause him to eat the bread of oppression and the waters of oppression till my coming in peace.
Job 3:24
For my sighing will come before any bread, and my groanings shall be poured put as waters.
Psalm 102:9
For I ate ashes as bread, and I mingled my drink with weeping.
Ezekiel 4:14
And saying, Ah, Lord Jehovah behold, my soul not being defiled: and a carcass and the torn in pieces I ate not from my youth and even till now; there came not flesh of uncleanness into my mouth.
Ezekiel 4:16
And he will say to me, Son of man, behold me breaking the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they ate bread by weight and with fear; and they shall drink water by measure, and with astonishment
Ezekiel 12:18-19
Son of man, thou shalt eat thy bread with trembling, and thou shalt drink thy water with disquiet and with dread;
Daniel 10:3
Bread of desires I ate not, and flesh and wine came not into my mouth, and anointing, I did not anoint myself even to the filling up of three weeks of days.