“So that his life abhors bread, and his soul dainty food.”
— WEB
Job 33:20
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“So that his life abhorreth bread, and his soul dainty meat.”
— KJV
“So that his life abhorreth bread, And his soul dainty food.”
— ASV
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Commentary
life--that is, the appetite, which ordinarily sustains "life" (Job 38:39; Psa 107:18; Ecc 12:5). The taking away of desire for food by sickness symbolizes the removal by affliction of lust, for things which foster the spiritual fever of pride. soul--desire.
— Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (public domain)
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