Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
{I refused} to touch [them]; they [are] like {food that will make me ill}.
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.
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.
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 Can tasteless [food] be eaten without salt, or is there taste in the white of a marshmallow plant? 7 {I refused} to touch [them]; they [are] like {food that will make me ill}. 8 "{O that} my request may come, and [that] God may grant my hope,
Cross References
1 Kings 17:12
She said, "{As Yahweh your God lives}, surely I do not have a cake, {but only a handful of flour} in the jar and a little olive oil in the jug. Here I [am] gathering a few pieces of wood, and I will go and prepare it for me and my son, that we might eat it and die."
1 Kings 22:27
and say, 'Thus says the king: "Put this [fellow in] the house of imprisonment and feed him reduced rations of food and water until I come in peace." '"
Job 3:24
For my sighing comes {before} my bread, and my groanings gush forth like water
Psalm 102:9
Indeed, I eat ashes like bread and mix my drink with tears
Ezekiel 4:14
And I said, "Ah, Lord Yahweh! Look! I have not been defiling myself, and a dead body and mangled carcass I have not eaten from my childhood until now, and {unclean meat} has not come into my mouth!"
Ezekiel 4:16
And he said to me, "Son of man, look, I [am] going to break the {supply} of bread in Jerusalem, and they will eat bread by weight, {anxiously}, and {rationed water}, and they will drink with horror,
Ezekiel 12:18-19
"Son of man, you must eat your food with trembling, and your water with shuddering, and with anxiety you must drink.
Daniel 10:3
I had not eaten [any] choice food, and meat and wine did not enter my mouth, and {I did not use any ointment} {until the end of three whole weeks}.