Job 6:6
Can that which hath no savour be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
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 over grass? Or loweth the ox over his fodder?
7My soul hath refused to touch, Those things, are like disease in my food.
Cross References
Leviticus 2:13And, every meal-offering oblation of thine, with salt, shalt thou season, and thou shalt not suffer to be lacking the salt of the covenant of thy God, from upon thy meal-offering,—upon every oblation of thine, shalt thou offer salt.
Job 6:30Is there, in my tongue, perversity? Or can, my sense, not discern, engulfing ruin?
Job 16:2I have heard many such things, Wearisome comforters, are ye all!
Psalms 119:103How smooth to my palate is thy speech, More than honey, to my mouth.
Colossians 4:6Your discourse being always with benefit, with salt, seasoned,—that ye may know how it behoveth you, unto each one, to be making answer.
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 →