Job Chapter 6 verse 6 Holy Bible
Can that which hath no savor be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?
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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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Shall that which is insipid be eaten without salt? Is there any taste in the white of an egg?
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Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egg?
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Can that which is unsavory be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egg?
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Can that which has no flavor be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?
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Eaten is an insipid thing without salt? Is there sense in the drivel of dreams?
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 6. - Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or, that which is insipid. Many critics suppose that in this and the following verse Job reproaches Eliphaz with the insipidity of his remarks, and declares that his soul refuses to touch such loathsome food. Others regard him as still speaking in his own defence, and justifying his expressions of disgust by the nauseous character of the food which had been put before him; i.e. of the treatment which he has received. Either explanation produces good sense; but perhaps the former is the more natural. Or is there any taste in the white of an egg? So our Revisers; and so Dillmann and Canon Cook. Professor Lee suggests "the whey of cheese" for "the white of an egg;" others, "the juice of purslaine." We have certainly no other evidence that eggs were eaten in primitive times.
