Job 6:7
Meaning, cross-references, and a prayer for Job 6:7 — by Collins Asein
Quick Summary
Job 6:7 is a verse from the book of Job in the Old Testament. The KJV reads: "The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat." Below you will find the full verse text, cross-references, meaning, and a prayer based on this scripture.
Job 6:7 — KJV
“The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat.”
— Job 6:7 (KJV)
Job 6:7 in Context — About the Book of Job
Job is the Bible's deepest wrestle with undeserved suffering. A blameless man loses everything, sits in ashes, and refuses easy answers — from his friends or himself. God answers from the whirlwind not with explanations but with Himself, and Job's fortunes are restored double.
Cross-References for Job 6:7
“Or if a soul touch any unclean thing, whether it be a carcase of an unclean beast, or a carcase of unclean cattle, or the carcase of unclean creeping things, and if it be hidden from him; he also shall be unclean, and guilty.”
Shares key themes with Job 6:7: things, soul, touch
“The soul which hath touched any such shall be unclean until even, and shall not eat of the holy things, unless he wash his flesh with water.”
Shares key themes with Job 6:7: things, soul, touch
“All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for meat to relieve the soul: see, O LORD, and consider; for I am become vile. to...: or, to make the soul to come again”
Shares key themes with Job 6:7: things, soul, meat
“And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so. life: Heb. a living soul”
Shares key themes with Job 6:7: soul, meat
“Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.”
Shares key themes with Job 6:7: things, meat
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