King James Version
Job 6:7 in the King James Version says “The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat.” — study this verse from Job chapter 6 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat.”
Job 6:7 · KJV
Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder? when he: Heb. at grass?
Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egg?
The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat.
Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me the thing that I long for! the thing: Heb. my expectation
Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
KJV Study — Public Domain
“to touch”
H5060properly, to touch, i.e., lay the hand upon (for any purpose; euphemistically, to lie with a woman); by implication, to reach (figuratively, to arrive
“The things that my soul”
H5315properly, a breathing creature, i.e., animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or ment
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