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Job 6:7 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" My soul refuses to touch them. They are as loathsome food to me. "
Job 6:7
Verse in Context
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5 Does the wild donkey bray when he has grass? Or does the ox low over his fodder?
6 Can that which has no flavor be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?
7 My soul refuses to touch them. They are as loathsome food to me.
8 “Oh that I might have my request, that God would grant the thing that I long for,
9 even that it would please God to crush me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
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Job 6:1
"Then Job answered,"
Job 6:2
"“Oh that my anguish were weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances!"
Job 6:3
"For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas, therefore my words have been rash."
Job 6:4
"For the arrows of the Almighty are within me. My spirit drinks up their poison. The terrors of God set themselves in array against me."
Job 6:5
"Does the wild donkey bray when he has grass? Or does the ox low over his fodder?"
Job 6:6
"Can that which has no flavor be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?"
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