Their soul abhorreth all manner of meat
Not only bread and common food, but dainty meat, the most
delicious fare, ( Job 33:20 ) , in which
they most delighted in time of health, and too much indulged
themselves in; and by that means brought diseases upon them,
which caused this loathing in them, as is common. Thus to those
who are distempered with sin, whose taste is not changed, nor can
it discern perverse things, the word of God, the Gospel of
Christ, which is delicious food, is not relished by them; the
doctrines of it are insipid things, they loath them as light
bread, as the Israelites did the manna.
And they draw near unto the gates of death;
that is, the grave; the house appointed for all living; the
dwelling place of men till the resurrection; and so is said to
have gates and doors; see ( Job 33:22 ) ( 30:23 ) and men sometimes
are brought so low by affliction as that they seem to be near to
death, just upon the brink of eternity, ready to enter into the
grave, and lie down among the dead.