Job 6:6
Good News Translation
But who can eat flat, unsalted food? What taste is there in the white of an egg?

New Revised Standard Version
Can that which is tasteless be eaten without salt, or is there any flavor in the juice of mallows?

Contemporary English Version
What is food without salt? What is more tasteless than the white of an egg?

New American Bible
Can anything insipid be eaten without salt? Is there flavor in the white of an egg?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Or can an unsavoury thing be eaten, that is not seasoned with salt? or can a man taste that which, when tasted, bringeth death?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Or can an unsavoury thing be eaten, that is not seasoned with salt? or can a man taste that which, when tasted, bringeth death?

that which.

Job 6:25 Why have you detracted the words of truth, whereas there is none of you that can reprove me?

Job 16:2 I have often heard such things as these: you are all troublesome comforters.

Leviticus 2:13 Whatsoever sacrifice thou offerest, thou shalt season it with salt: neither shalt thou take away the salt of the covenant of thy God from thy sacrifice. In all thy oblations thou shalt offer salt.

Luke 14:34 Salt is good. But if the salt shall lose its savour, wherewith shall it be seasoned?

Colossians 4:6 Let your speech be always in grace seasoned with salt: that you may know how you ought to answer every man.

taste.

Job 6:30 And you shall not find iniquity in my tongue, neither shall folly sound in my mouth.

Job 12:11 Doth not the ear discern words, and the palate of him that eateth, the taste?

Job 34:3 For the ear trieth words, and the mouth discerneth meats by the taste.

Psalm 119:103 How sweet are thy words to my palate! more than honey to my mouth.

Hebrews 6:4,5 For it is impossible for those who were once illuminated, have tasted also the heavenly gift and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, . . .

Context
Job Replies: My Complaint is Just
5Will the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or will the ox low when he standeth before a full manger? 6Or can an unsavoury thing be eaten, that is not seasoned with salt? or can a man taste that which, when tasted, bringeth death?7The things which before my soul would not touch, now, through anguish, are my meats.…
Cross References
Matthew 5:13
You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt lose its savour, wherewith shall it be salted? It is good for nothing anymore but to be cast out, and to be trodden on by men.

Job 6:5
Will the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or will the ox low when he standeth before a full manger?

Job 6:7
The things which before my soul would not touch, now, through anguish, are my meats.

Job 6:5
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