Job 6:7

1 Kings 17:12; 1 Kings 22:27; Daniel 10:3; Ezekiel 12:18; Ezekiel 12:19; Ezekiel 4:14; Ezekiel 4:16; Psalms 102:9

Related Commentaries of Job 6:7

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The things that my soul refused to touch - That I refused to touch - the word “soul” here being used to denote himself. The idea here is, that th...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Job in his reply deals first of all with the charge of impatience. He catches up the word used by Eliphaz ( Job 5:2 ), and declares that his impatien...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

soul. Hebrew. nephesh. App-13. meat . bread. Figure of speech Synecdoche (of Species), App-6, put for all kinds of food.
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat.
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

The things that my soul refuseth, &c.— Job, persisting in his allegory, goes on to shew how disagreeable to his stomach the speech of Eliphaz h...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The First Speech of Job ( Job 6:7 ) 1-13. Job, smarting under the remarks of Eliphaz, which he feels are not appropriate to his case, renews and j...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

RV 'My soul refuseth to touch them They are as loathsome meat to me.' Job 6:6-7 may mean that Job's afllictions are as intolerable to him as lo...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

VIII. MEN FALSE: GOD OVERBEARING Job 6:1-30 ; Job 7:1-21 Job SPEAKS WORST to endure of all things is the grief that preys on a man's own hea...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

“A Deceitful Brook” Job 6:1-30 The burden of Job's complaint is the ill-treatment meted out by his friends. They had accused him of speaking ra...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Job's answer is a magnificent and terrible outcry. First, he speaks of his pain as a protest against the method of Eliphaz. His reply is not to the d...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(5) Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder? (6) Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there a...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

The things [that] my soul refused to touch [are] as my sorrowful meat. Meaning either the above things, that which is unsavoury, and the white of a...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

The things [that] my soul refused to touch [are] as my sorrowful meat. Ver. 7. The things that my soul refused to touch, &c. ] I suffer such t...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The things that my soul refused , &c. “Job, persisting in his allegory,” says Schultens, “goes on to show how disagreeable to his stomach the sp...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

JOB'S REPLY TO ELIPHAZ (vv.1-30) It is remarkable that Job, being in the painful condition he was, was still able to reply in such capable and s...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Job's Reply to Eliphaz. B. C. 1520. 1...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Heb. As the sicknesses or sorrows of my meat , i.e. as my sorrowful meat, which I am constrained to eat with grief of heart. The particle as , eith...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

JOB’S REPLY TO ELIPHAZ I. Justifies his complaint ( Job 6:2 ). “O that my grief were thoroughly weighed,” &c. Job’s case neither apprehende...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 6:4 . The poison of the arrows absorbed his spirits. In 1822, when Campbel the missionary travelled in South Africa, a bushman shot one of his...
The Biblical Illustrator

But Job answered and said. Job’s answer to Eliphaz We must come upon grief in one of two ways and Job seems to have come upon grief in a way th...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Job 6:1-18 . and 7. contain Job's reply to Eliphaz. In Job 6:1-18 . he confines himself to three points: (1) a justification of...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job Defends his Desire for Death
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat, or, What my soul abhorred to touch, that is to me as my loathsome food; he had to...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

The things, &c. — The sense may be, those grievous afflictions, which I dreaded the very thought of, are now my daily, though sorrowful bread.

⁷ The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat.

Related Commentaries of Job 6:7

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Job 6:7