New King James Version
Job 6:6
6Can flavorless food be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?
Job 6:6 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egg?
- New International Version (NIV)Is tasteless food eaten without salt, or is there flavor in the sap of the mallow?
- English Standard Version (ESV)Can that which is tasteless be eaten without salt, or is there any taste in the juice of the mallow?
- New Living Translation (NLT)Don’t people complain about unsalted food? Does anyone want the tasteless white of an egg?
Context of Job 6:6
4For the arrows of the Almighty are within me; My spirit drinks in their poison; The terrors of God are arrayed against me. 5Does the wild donkey bray when it has grass, Or does the ox low over its fodder? Can flavorless food be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg? 7My soul refuses to touch them; They are as loathsome food to me. 8“Oh, that I might have my request, That God would grant me the thing that I long for!
Read all of Job 6Job 6:6 word by word
הֲיֵאָכֵ֣ל תָּ֭פֵל מִבְּלִי־מֶ֑לַח אִם־יֶשׁ־טַ֝֗עַם בְּרִ֣יר חַלָּמֽוּת׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 6:6
- Job 6:25How forceful are right words! But what does your arguing prove?
- Job 16:2“I have heard many such things; Miserable comforters are you all!
- Leviticus 2:13And every offering of your grain offering you shall season with salt; you shall not allow the salt of the covenant of your God to be lacking from your grain offering. With all your offerings you shall offer salt.
- Luke 14:34“Salt is good; but if the salt has lost its flavor, how shall it be seasoned?
- Colossians 4:6Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.
- Job 6:30Is there injustice on my tongue? Cannot my taste discern the unsavory?
- Job 12:11Does not the ear test words And the mouth taste its food?
- Job 34:3For the ear tests words As the palate tastes food.
- Psalms 119:103How sweet are Your words to my taste, Sweeter than honey to my mouth!
- Hebrews 6:4For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted the heavenly gift, and have become partakers of the Holy Spirit,
Commentaries on Job 6:6
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 6Can that which is unsavoury - Mr. Good renders this verse as follows: Doth insipid food without a mixture of salt, yea, doth the white of the egg give forth pungency? Which he thus illustrates: "Doth that which hath nothing of seasoning, nothing of a pungent or irritable power within it, produce pungency or irritation? I too should be quiet and complain not, if I had nothing provocative or acrimonious, but, alas! the food I am doomed to partake of is the…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 6Can that which is unsavoury - Which is insipid, or without taste. Be eaten without salt - It is necessary to add salt in order to make it either palatable or wholesome. The literal truth of this no one can doubt, Insipid food cannot be relished, nor would it long sustain life. “The Orientals eat their bread often with mere salt, without any other addition except some dry and pounded summer-savory, which last is the common method at Aleppo.” Russell‘s…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 6The tasteless food … the white of an egg? Job's complaint in the form of a word puzzle (riddle) probably refers to both Eliphaz's weak advice and the situation God allowed him to endure that Job hates.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 66. unsavoury--tasteless, insipid. Salt is a chief necessary of life to an Easterner, whose food is mostly vegetable. the white--literally, "spittle" (1Sa 21:13), which the white of an egg resembles.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 6
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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