Job 6:7
My soul refuses to touch them; they are loathsome food to me.
BSB
ASV
My soul refuseth to touch them; They are as loathsome food to me.
KJV
The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat.
To "touch" is contrasted with "meat." "My taste refused even to touch it, and yet am I fed with such meat of sickness." The second clause literally, is, "Such is like the sickness of my food." The natural taste abhors even to touch insipid food, and such forms my nourishment.
Note, It is wisdom not to use ourselves or our children to be nice and dainty about meat and drink, because we know not how we or they may be reduced, nor how that which we now disdain may be made acceptable by necessity.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Ezekiel 4:14“Ah, Lord GOD,” I said, “I have never defiled myself. From my youth until now I have not eaten anything found dead or mauled by wild beasts. No unclean meat has ever entered my…
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“No, Lord!” Peter answered. “I have never eaten anything impure or unclean.”
While they were killing, I was left alone. And I fell facedown and cried out, “Oh, Lord GOD, when You pour out Your wrath on Jerusalem, will You destroy the entire remnant of Israel?”
You must not eat any detestable thing.
Then I said, “Ah, Lord GOD, they are saying of me, ‘Is he not just telling parables?’”
“Ah, Lord GOD,” I said, “I surely do not know how to speak, for I am only a child!”
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Daniel 10:3I ate no rich food, no meat or wine entered my mouth, and I did not anoint myself with oil until the three weeks were completed.
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But when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face,
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Psalms 102:9For I have eaten ashes like bread and mixed my drink with tears
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My tears have been my food both day and night, while men ask me all day long, “Where is your God?”
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1 Kings 17:12But she replied, “As surely as the LORD your God lives, I have no bread—only a handful of flour in a jar and a little oil in a jug. Look, I am gathering a…
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The disciples replied, “Where in this desolate place could we find enough bread to feed such a large crowd?”