My appetite refuses to touch them;
    they are as food that is loathsome to me.[a]

“Oh that I might have my request,
    and that God would fulfill my hope,
that it would (A)please God to crush me,
    that he would let loose his hand and cut me off!

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Footnotes

  1. Job 6:7 The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain

I refuse to touch it;
    such food makes me ill.(A)

“Oh, that I might have my request,
    that God would grant what I hope for,(B)
that God would be willing to crush(C) me,
    to let loose his hand and cut off my life!(D)

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My soul refuses to touch them;
They are as loathsome food to me.

“Oh, that I might have my request,
That God would grant me the thing that I long for!
That it would please God to crush me,
That He would loose His hand and (A)cut me off!

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