SEV Biblia, Chapter 33:20
que le hace que su vida aborrezca el pan, y su alma la comida suave.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Job 33:20
Verse 20. His life abhorreth bread ] These expressions strongly and naturally point out that general nausea, or loathing which sick persons feel in almost every species of disorder.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 19-28 - Job complained of his diseases, and judged by them that God was angr with him; his friends did so too: but Elihu shows that God ofte afflicts the body for good to the soul. This thought will be of grea use for our getting good from sickness, in and by which God speaks to men. Pain is the fruit of sin; yet, by the grace of God, the pain of the body is often made a means of good to the soul. When affliction have done their work, they shall be removed. A ransom or propitiatio is found. Jesus Christ is the Messenger and the Ransom, so Elihu call him, as Job had called him his Redeemer, for he is both the Purchase and the Price, the Priest and the sacrifice. So high was the value of souls, that nothing less would redeem them; and so great the hurt don by sin, that nothing less would atone for it, than the blood of the So of God, who gave his life a ransom for many. A blessed change follows Recovery from sickness is a mercy indeed, when it proceeds from the remission of sin. All that truly repent of their sins, shall find merc with God. The works of darkness are unfruitful works; all the gains of sin will come far short of the damage. We must, with a broken an contrite heart, confess our sins to God, 1Jo 1:9. We must confess the fact of sin; and not try to justify or excuse ourselves. We mus confess the fault of sin; I have perverted that which was right. We must confess the folly of sin; So foolish have I been and ignorant. I there not good reason why we should make such a confession?
Original Hebrew
וזהמתו 2092 חיתו 2416 לחם 3899 ונפשׁו 5315 מאכל 3978 תאוה׃ 8378
