Job 33:20 · KJV
“So that his life abhorreth bread, and his soul dainty meat. {dainty...: Heb. meat of desire}”
— Job 33:20
He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong {pain}:
His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; and his bones {that} were not seen stick out.
Job 33 — Context
He keepeth back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword. {from perishing: Heb. from passing}
19He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong {pain}:
20So that his life abhorreth bread, and his soul dainty meat. {dainty...: Heb. meat of desire}
21His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; and his bones {that} were not seen stick out.
22Yea, his soul draweth near unto the grave, and his life to the destroyers.
Cross References
Job 3:24
For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters. {I eat: Heb. my meat}
Psalms 107:17-18
Fools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted.
Amos 5:11
Forasmuch therefore as your treading {is} upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them. {pleasant...: Heb. vineyards of desire}
Genesis 3:6
And when the woman saw that the tree {was} good for food, and that it {was} pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make {one} wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat. {pleasant: Heb. a desire}
Jeremiah 3:19
But I said, How shall I put thee among the children, and give thee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of nations? and I said, Thou shalt call me, My father; and shalt not turn away from me. {from me: Heb. from after me} {a goodly...: Heb. an heritage of glory, or, beauty} {pleasant...: Heb. land of desire}