Job 33:20

Job 33:20 So that his life abhorreth bread, and his soul dainty meat.

Ver. 20. So that his life abhorreth bread ] Which is the staff of man’s life, and by the Latins called panis, of the Greek παν , as if it were all in all. This the sick man velut sordidum abominatur, abhorreth as some filthy thing, so the original word here signifieth; he nauseateth and cannot away with it, though made of the kidneys of wheat, as Moses phraseth it; he brooks it no better than if it were made of sawdust, or mixed with gravel, or made with man’s dung, as that in Ezekiel.

And his soul dainty meat ] Heb. Meats of desire. Those dainties which he once sought so passionately, and fed upon so eagerly, he finds no more relish in than in the white of an egg or a dry chip; yea, they are no less horrid to him than rank poison. See a like description of a sick person, Psalms 107:18 , which seemeth to be taken from hence.