Parallel Verses
King James Version
The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat.
New American Standard Bible
They are like loathsome food to me.
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.
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 Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egg? 7 The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat. 8 Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!
Cross References
1 Kings 17:12
And she said, As the LORD thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.
1 Kings 22:27
And say, Thus saith the king, Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I come in peace.
Job 3:24
For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.
Psalm 102:9
For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,
Ezekiel 4:14
Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! behold, my soul hath not been polluted: for from my youth up even till now have I not eaten of that which dieth of itself, or is torn in pieces; neither came there abominable flesh into my mouth.
Ezekiel 4:16
Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with care; and they shall drink water by measure, and with astonishment:
Ezekiel 12:18-19
Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with carefulness;
Daniel 10:3
I ate no pleasant bread, neither came flesh nor wine in my mouth, neither did I anoint myself at all, till three whole weeks were fulfilled.