Contradictions and Paradoxes in Job 6:7

Check out Contradictions Catalog of Job 6:7 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts Job 6:7. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to the author of the book of Job, Job is saying that the things he doesn't want to experience or think about are making him really sad. It's like when you don't want to eat something yucky, but that's all you have.

Job 6:7: The things [that] my soul refused to touch [are] as my sorrowful meat.

Contradiction with Job 16:6

Job expresses that speaking or refraining from speaking brings no relief, which contradicts his earlier focus on refusing certain comforts.

Job 16:6: Though I speak, my grief is not asswaged: and [though] I forbear, what am I eased? [what...: Heb. what goeth from me?]

Contradiction with Job 29:25

Job describes comforting others like a leader, contrasting his inability to take comfort in "loathsome meat" in Job 6:7.

Job 29:25: I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one [that] comforteth the mourners.

Contradiction with Job 2:10

Job says we must accept both good and evil from God, contrasting his refusal to eat the detestable in Job 6:7.

Job 2:10: But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.

Contradiction with Job 42:6

Job repents in dust and ashes, which contrasts the aversion to suffering or loathed things expressed in Job 6:7.

Job 42:6: Wherefore I abhor [myself], and repent in dust and ashes.
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