Job 6:7

Bible in Basic English (1941)

My soul has no desire for such things, they are as disease in my food.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Kgs 17:12 : 12 Then she said, By the life of the Lord your God, I have nothing but a little meal in my store, and a drop of oil in the bottle; and now I am getting two sticks together so that I may go in and make it ready for me and my son, so that we may have a meal before our death.
  • 1 Kgs 22:27 : 27 And say, It is the king's order that this man is to be put in prison and given prison food till I come again in peace.
  • Job 3:24 : 24 In place of my food I have grief, and cries of sorrow come from me like water.
  • Ps 102:9 : 9 I have had dust for bread and my drink has been mixed with weeping:
  • Ezek 4:14 : 14 Then I said, Ah, Lord! see, my soul has never been unclean, and I have never taken as my food anything which has come to a natural death or has been broken by beasts, from the time when I was young even till now; no disgusting flesh has ever come into my mouth.
  • Ezek 4:16 : 16 And he said to me, Son of man, see, I will take away from Jerusalem her necessary bread: they will take their bread by weight and with care, measuring out their drinking-water with fear and wonder:
  • Ezek 12:18-19 : 18 Son of man, take your food with shaking fear, and your water with trouble and care; 19 And say to the people of the land, This is what the Lord has said about the people of Jerusalem and the land of Israel: They will take their food with care and their drink with wonder, so that all the wealth of their land may be taken from it because of the violent ways of the people living in it.
  • Dan 10:3 : 3 I had no pleasing food, no meat or wine came into my mouth, and I put no oil on my body till three full weeks were ended.

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