Job 6:6
Can that which hath no savor be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?
American Standard Version
In The King James Version
Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egg?
In Context
5Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? Or loweth the ox over his fodder?
7My soul refuseth to touch [them]; They are as loathsome food to me.
Cross References
Leviticus 2:13And every oblation of thy meal-offering shalt thou season with salt; neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meal-offering: with all thine oblations thou shalt offer salt.
Job 6:30Is there injustice on my tongue? Cannot my taste discern mischievous things?
Job 16:2I have heard many such things: Miserable comforters are ye all.
Psalms 119:103How sweet are thy words unto my taste! [Yea, sweeter] than honey to my mouth!
Colossians 4:6Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer each one.
Matthew Henry on Job 6:2-8
Job's Reply to Eliphaz. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 But Job answered and said, 2 Oh that my grief were thoroughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together! 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… Read the whole commentary →