Job 6:7 · KJV
“The things {that} my soul refused to touch {are} as my sorrowful meat.”
— Job 6:7
Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there {any} taste in the white of an egg?
Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant {me} the thing that I long for! {the thing...: Heb. my expectation}
Job 6 — Context
Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder? {when he...: Heb. at grass?}
6Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there {any} taste in the white of an egg?
7The things {that} my soul refused to touch {are} as my sorrowful meat.
8Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant {me} the thing that I long for! {the thing...: Heb. my expectation}
9Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
Cross References
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:
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. {pleasant...: Heb. bread of desires}
Psalms 102:9
For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,
Job 3:24
For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters. {I eat: Heb. my meat}
Ezekiel 12:18-19
Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with carefulness;
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.
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.
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.