so that he detests his bread, and his soul loathes his favorite food.
Cross References
Job 3:24I sigh when food is put before me, and my groans pour out like water.
Job 6:7My soul refuses to touch them; they are loathsome food to me.
Psalm 102:4My heart is afflicted, and withered like grass; I even forget to eat my bread.
Psalm 107:18They loathed all food and drew near to the gates of death.
Treasury of Scripture
So that his life abhors bread, and his soul dainty meat.
his life
Psalm 107:17,18
Fools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted…
dainty meat.
Genesis 3:6
And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.
Jeremiah 3:19
But I said, How shall I put thee among the children, and give thee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of nations? and I said, Thou shalt call me, My father; and shalt not turn away from me.
Amos 5:11
Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.
