Job 6:6 “Is tasteless food eaten without salt, or is there flavor in the white…”

Job 6:6

Is tasteless food eaten without salt, or is there flavor in the white of an egg ?

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egg?

World English Bible

Can that which has no flavor be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?

American Standard Version

Can that which hath no savor be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?

Geneva Bible 1599

That which is vnsauerie, shall it be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egge?

Darby Translation

Shall that which is insipid be eaten without salt? Is there any taste in the white of an egg?

Young's Literal Translation

Eaten is an insipid thing without salt? Is there sense in the drivel of dreams?

Bible in Basic English

Will a man take food which has no taste without salt? or is there any taste in the soft substance of purslain?

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Cross references

“that which”

Leviticus 2:13 Luke 14:34 Colossians 4:6 Job 6:25 Job 16:2

Leviticus 2:13 · BSB

And you shall season each of your grain offerings with salt. You must not leave the salt of the covenant of your God out of your grain offering; you are to add salt to each of your offerings.

Luke 14:34 · BSB

Salt is good, but if the salt loses its savor, with what will it be seasoned?

Colossians 4:6 · BSB

Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.

Job 6:25 · BSB

How painful are honest words! But what does your argument prove?

Job 16:2 · BSB

“I have heard many things like these; miserable comforters are you all.

“taste”

Job 34:3 Job 6:30 Job 12:11 Psalm 119:103 Hebrews 6:4 Hebrews 6:5

Job 34:3 · BSB

For the ear tests words as the mouth tastes food.

Job 6:30 · BSB

Is there iniquity on my tongue? Can my mouth not discern malice?

Job 12:11 · BSB

Does not the ear test words as the tongue tastes its food?

Psalm 119:103 · BSB

How sweet are Your words to my taste— sweeter than honey in my mouth!

Hebrews 6:4 · BSB

It is impossible for those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, who have shared in the Holy Spirit,

Hebrews 6:5 · BSB

who have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the powers of the coming age—

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

5Does a wild donkey bray over fresh grass, or an ox low over its fodder?

7My soul refuses to touch them; they are loathsome food to me.

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