KJV King James Version
Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there [any] taste in the white of an egg?
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Job 6:6
Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there [any] taste in the white of an egg?
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Is tasteless food eaten without salt, or is there flavor in the white of an egg?
WEB World English Bible
Can that which has no flavor be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?
ASV American Standard Version
Can that which hath no savor be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Eaten is an insipid thing without salt? Is there sense in the drivel of dreams?
Surrounding context — Job 6
3 For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up.
4 For the arrows of the Almighty [are] within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.
5 Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?
6 Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there [any] taste in the white of an egg?
7 The things [that] my soul refused to touch [are] as my sorrowful meat.
8 Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant [me] the thing that I long for!
9 Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
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Job 34:3For the ear trieth words, as the mouth tasteth meat.Job 6:30Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?Job 12:11Doth not the ear try words? and the mouth taste his meat?Luke 14:34Salt [is] good: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be seasoned?Leviticus 2:13And every oblation of thy meat offering shalt thou season with salt; neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meat offering: with all thine offerings thou shalt offer salt.Colossians 4:6Let your speech [be] alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.Hebrews 6:4-5For [it is] impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,Job 6:25How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?Job 16:2I have heard many such things: miserable comforters [are] ye all.Psalm 119:103How sweet are thy words unto my taste! [yea, sweeter] than honey to my mouth!
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