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Job 6:7

NETBible	I¹ have refused² to touch such things;³ they are like loathsome food to me.⁴
NIV © biblegateway Job 6:7	I refuse to touch it; such food makes me ill.
NASB © biblegateway Job 6:7	"My soul refuses to touch them; They are like loathsome food to me.
NLT © biblegateway Job 6:7	My appetite disappears when I look at it; I gag at the thought of eating it!
MSG © biblegateway Job 6:7	Everything in me is repulsed by it--it makes me sick.
BBE © SABDAweb Job 6:7	My soul has no desire for such things, they are as disease in my food.
NRSV © bibleoremus Job 6:7	My appetite refuses to touch them; they are like food that is loathsome to me.
NKJV © biblegateway Job 6:7	My soul refuses to touch them; They are as loathsome food to me.
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KJV	The things [that] my soul <05315> refused <03985> (8765) to touch <05060> (8800) [are] as my sorrowful <01741> meat <03899>_.
NASB © biblegateway Job 6:7	"My soul <05315> refuses <03985> to touch <05060> them; They are like loathsome <01741> food <03899> to me.
LXXM	ou <3364> ADV dunatai <1410> V-PMI-3S gar <1063> PRT pausasyai <3973> V-AMN mou <1473> P-GS h <3588> T-NSF quch <5590> N-NSF bromon {N-ASM} gar <1063> PRT orw <3708> V-PAI-1S ta <3588> T-APN sita <4621> N-APN mou <1473> P-GS wsper <3746> ADV osmhn <3744> N-ASF leontov <3023> N-GSM
NET [draft] ITL	I <05315> have refused <03985> to touch <05060> such things; they <01992> are like loathsome <01741> food <03899> to me.
HEBREW	ymxl <03899> ywdk <01741> hmh <01992> yspn <05315> ewgnl <05060> hnam (6:7) <03985>

NETBible

I¹ have refused² to touch such things;³ they are like loathsome food to me.⁴

NET Notes

¹tn The traditional rendering of נַפְשִׁי (nafshi) is “my soul.” But since נֶפֶשׁ (nefesh) means the whole person, body and soul, it is best to translate it with its suffix simply as an emphatic pronoun.

²tn For the explanation of the perfect verb with its completed action in the past and its remaining effects, see GKC 311 §106.g.

³tn The phrase “such things” is not in the Hebrew text but has been supplied.

⁴tn The second colon of the verse is difficult. The word דְּוֵי (dÿve) means “sickness of” and yields a meaning “like the sickness of my food.” This could take the derived sense of דָּוָה (davah) and mean “impure” or “corrupt” food. The LXX has “for I loathe my food as the smell of a lion” and so some commentators emend “they” (which has no clear antecedent) to mean “I loathe it [like the sickness of my food].” Others have more freely emended the text to “my palate loathes my food” (McNeile) or “my bowels resound with suffering” (I. Eitan, “An unknown meaning of RAHAMIÝM,” JBL 53 [1934]: 271). Pope has “they are putrid as my flesh [= my meat].” D. J. A. Clines (Job [WBC], 159) prefers the suggestion in BHS, “it [my soul] loathes them as my food.” E. Dhorme (Job, 80) repoints the second word of the colon to get כְּבֹדִי (kÿvodi, “my glory”): “my heart [glory] loathes/is sickened by my bread.”