Parallel Verses
NET Bible
I have refused to touch such things; they are like loathsome food to me.
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.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
The things that sometime I might not away withal, are now my meat for very sorrow.
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 food that is tasteless be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg? 7 I have refused to touch such things; they are like loathsome food to me. 8 "Oh that my request would be realized, and that God would grant me what I long for!
Cross References
1 Kings 17:12
She said, "As certainly as the Lord your God lives, I have no food, except for a handful of flour in a jar and a little olive oil in a jug. Right now I am gathering a couple of sticks for a fire. Then I'm going home to make one final meal for my son and myself. After we have eaten that, we will die of starvation."
1 Kings 22:27
Say, 'This is what the king says, "Put this man in prison. Give him only a little bread and water until I safely return."'"
Job 3:24
For my sighing comes in place of my food, and my groanings flow forth like water.
Psalm 102:9
For I eat ashes as if they were bread, and mix my drink with my tears,
Ezekiel 4:14
And I said, "Ah, sovereign Lord, I have never been ceremonially defiled before. I have never eaten a carcass or an animal torn by wild beasts; from my youth up, unclean meat has never entered my mouth."
Ezekiel 4:16
Then he said to me, "Son of man, I am about to remove the bread supply in Jerusalem. They will eat their bread ration anxiously, and they will drink their water ration in terror
Ezekiel 12:18-19
"Son of man, eat your bread with trembling, and drink your water with anxious shaking.
Daniel 10:3
I ate no choice food; no meat or wine came to my lips, nor did I anoint myself with oil until the end of those three weeks.