Job 6:7
Modern Translations
New International Version
I refuse to touch it; such food makes me ill.

New Living Translation
My appetite disappears when I look at it; I gag at the thought of eating it!

English Standard Version
My appetite refuses to touch them; they are as food that is loathsome to me.

Berean Study Bible
My soul refuses to touch them; they are loathsome food to me.

New American Standard Bible
“My soul refuses to touch them; They are like loathsome food to me.

NASB 1995
"My soul refuses to touch them; They are like loathsome food to me.

NASB 1977
“My soul refuses to touch them; They are like loathsome food to me.

Amplified Bible
“My soul refuses to touch them; Such things are like loathsome food to me [sickening and repugnant].

Christian Standard Bible
I refuse to touch them; they are like contaminated food.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
I refuse to touch them; they are like contaminated food.

Contemporary English Version
That's how my food tastes, and my appetite is gone. *

Good News Translation
I have no appetite for food like that, and everything I eat makes me sick.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
I refuse to touch such things. They are disgusting to me.

International Standard Version
I cannot bring myself to touch them; food like this makes me sick."

NET Bible
I have refused to touch such things; they are like loathsome food to me.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat.

New King James Version
My soul refuses to touch them; They are as loathsome food to me.

King James 2000 Bible
The things that my soul refused to touch are as loathsome food to me.

New Heart English Bible
My soul refuses to touch them. They are as loathsome food to me.

World English Bible
My soul refuses to touch them. They are as loathsome food to me.

American King James Version
The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat.

American Standard Version
My soul refuseth to touch them ; They are as loathsome food to me.

A Faithful Version
My soul refuses to touch them; they are sickening food to me.

Darby Bible Translation
What my soul refuseth to touch, that is as my loathsome food.

English Revised Version
My soul refuseth to touch them; they are as loathsome meat to me.

Webster's Bible Translation
The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful food.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
Such things as my soule refused to touch, as were sorowes, are my meate.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
The thinges that sometime I might not away withel, are nowe my meate for very sorowe.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
The thinges that sometyme I might not awaye withall, are now my meate for very sorow.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
My soul is refusing to touch! They [are] as my sickening food.

Young's Literal Translation
My soul is refusing to touch! They are as my sickening food.

Smith's Literal Translation
My soul refused to touch these as the loathsomeness of my bread.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
The things which before my soul would not touch, now, through anguish are my meats.

Catholic Public Domain Version
The things that my soul was unwilling to touch before, now, because of anguish, are my foods.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
My soul was wearied in its trouble. Oh, wailing like a drunkard came to me!

Lamsa Bible
My soul is weary of its troubles, I lament like a drunken man in my affliction.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
My soul refuseth to touch them; They are as the sickness of my flesh.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
For my wrath cannot cease; for I perceive my food as the smell of a lion to be loathsome.
















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