Job 6:7
The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat.
Cross-reference
Psalm 102:9 describes eating ashes like bread, a strong parallel to Job's loathsome food as a sign of mourning.
Proverbs 27:7 states the full loathe honey—Job's soul refuses food, illustrating that same principle of aversion.
Psalm 80:5 uses 'bread of tears' as suffering's food, paralleling Job's metaphor of loathsome food for misery.
1 Kings 22:27 mentions 'bread of affliction,' paralleling Job's sorrowful meat as food associated with suffering.
Ezekiel 4:14 also refuses loathsome food, but for ritual purity—both express aversion to unclean eating.
Ezekiel 4:16 describes eating bread with anxiety during siege, mirroring Job's distressed refusal of food.
Ezekiel 12:18 has eating with trembling, similar to Job's loathing of food as a sign of suffering.
Ezekiel 12:19 expands on eating bread with anxiety due to desolation, paralleling Job's disgust in affliction.
Daniel 10:3 shows voluntary abstinence in mourning, while Job involuntarily loathes food—both avoid normal eating in distress.