Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
The things that sometime I might not away withal, are now my meat for very sorrow.
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.
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.
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 That which is unsavory, shalt it be eaten without salt, or is there any taste in the white of an egg? 7 The things that sometime I might not away withal, are now my meat for very sorrow. 8 "O that I might have my desire! O that God would grant me the thing, that I long for!
Cross References
1 Kings 17:12
And she answered, "As surely as the LORD thy God liveth, I have no bread, but even a handful of meal in a pitcher, and a little oil in a cruse. And see, I have gathered a few sticks for to go and bake it for me and my son, that we may eat it and then die."
1 Kings 22:27
and say, 'Thus sayeth the king. Put ye this fellow in the prison house and feed him with bread and water straightly, until I return in peace.'"
Job 3:24
For my sighs come before I eat, and my roarings fall out like flowing water.
Psalm 102:9
I eat ashes with my bread, and mingle my drink with weeping,
Ezekiel 4:14
Then said I, "O LORD God: Behold, my soul was yet never stained, for from my youth up to this hour. I did never eat of a dead carcass, or that which was slain of wild beasts, neither came there ever any unclean flesh in my mouth."
Ezekiel 4:16
And he said unto me, "Behold thou son of man, I will minish all the provision of bread in Jerusalem, so that they shall weigh their bread, and eat it with scarceness. But as for water, they shall have a very little measure thereof, to drink.
Ezekiel 12:18-19
"Thou son of man: with a fearful trembling shalt thou eat thy bread, with carefulness and sorrow shalt thou drink thy water.
Daniel 10:3
so that I had no lust to eat bread: as for flesh and wine, there came none within my mouth: No, I did not once anoint myself, till the whole three weeks were out.