Exodus 5:20-21

"And they met Moses and Aaron who stood in the way, as they came forth from Pharaoh: And they said unto them, Jehovah look upon you, and judge; because ye have made our savor to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to slay us."

"Jehovah look upon you, and judge ..." As Keil commented:

"What perversity of the natural heart! They call upon God to judge, while by their very complaining they show that they have no confidence in God and his power to save."[19]

"You have made our savor (odor) to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh ..." This is an amazing mixed metaphor. The eyes do not detect odors! Rawlinson surmised from this that the metaphor "in the eyes of" had already lost its original meaning and had rather the meaning of "in the respect of," or "in the opinion of."[20] The passage simply means, "Ye have made us to stink in the nostrils of Pharaoh!"