KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Job 6:7–8
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Job 6:7
7The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat.
7The things that my soule refused to touch, are as my sorrowfull meat.
Job 6:8
8Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!
8O that I might haue my request! and that God would graunt mee †the thing that I long for!
- Hebr. my expectation.
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DEFINED WORDS
Job 6:7
Causing or associated with grief; here, grievous food.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Job 6:8
Power or strength; also an auxiliary expressing possibility or permission.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
The expression of desire to some person for something to be granted or done; an asking; a petition.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
A deity or object of worship; when referring to the LORD, the one true God.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To give, bestow, allow, or confer, especially in answer to a request.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Extending a great distance or duration; also to desire earnestly.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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From verse 7
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Open the full verse study12And she said, As the Lord thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.
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Open the full verse study27And say, Thus saith the king, Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I come in peace.
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Open the full verse study3I ate no pleasant bread, neither came flesh nor wine in my mouth, neither did I anoint myself at all, till three whole weeks were fulfilled.
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Open the full verse study18Son of man, eat thy bread with quaking, and drink thy water with trembling and with carefulness;
19And say unto the people of the land, Thus saith the Lord God of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and of the land of Israel; They shall eat their bread with carefulness, and drink their water with astonishment, that her land may be desolate from all that is therein, because of the violence of all them that dwell therein.
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Open the full verse study14Then said I, Ah Lord God! behold, my soul hath not been polluted: for from my youth up even till now have I not eaten of that which dieth of itself, or is torn in pieces; neither came there abominable flesh into my mouth.
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Open the full verse study16Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with care; and they shall drink water by measure, and with astonishment:
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Open the full verse study24For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.
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Open the full verse study9For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,
From verse 8
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Open the full verse study81My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word.
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Open the full verse study14I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.
15And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?
16They shall go down to the bars of the pit, when our rest together is in the dust.
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Open the full verse study11What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my life?
12Is my strength the strength of stones? or is my flesh of brass?
13Is not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me?
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