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Job 33:20
Job 33:20 is verse 20 of Job chapter 33, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
so that he detests his bread, and his soul loathes his favorite food.
King James Version
So that his life abhorreth bread, and his soul dainty meat.
World English Bible
so that his life abhors bread, and his soul dainty food.
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Job 33:18–22 · Berean Standard Bible
18 to preserve his soul from the Pit and his life from perishing by the sword.
19 A man is also chastened on his bed with pain and constant distress in his bones,
20 so that he detests his bread, and his soul loathes his favorite food.
21 His flesh wastes away from sight, and his hidden bones protrude.
22 He draws near to the Pit, and his life to the messengers of death.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Psalms 107:17Fools, in their rebellious ways, and through their iniquities, suffered affliction.
Psalms 107:18They loathed all food and drew near to the gates of death.
Genesis 3:6When the woman saw that the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eyes, and that it was desirable for obtaining wisdom, she took the fruit and ate it. She also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate it.
Jeremiah 3:19Then I said, ‘How I long to make you My sons and give you a desirable land, the most beautiful inheritance of all the nations!’ I thought you would call Me ‘Father’ and never turn away from following Me.
Amos 5:11Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact from him a tax of grain, you will never live in the stone houses you have built; you will never drink the wine from the lush vineyards you have planted.