Job 6:6 · KJV
“Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there {any} taste in the white of an egg?”
— Job 6:6
Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder? {when he...: Heb. at grass?}
The things {that} my soul refused to touch {are} as my sorrowful meat.
Job 6 — Context
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.
5Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder? {when he...: Heb. at grass?}
6Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there {any} taste in the white of an egg?
7The things {that} my soul refused to touch {are} as my sorrowful meat.
8Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant {me} the thing that I long for! {the thing...: Heb. my expectation}
Cross References
Job 34:3
For the ear trieth words, as the mouth tasteth meat. {mouth: Heb. palate}
Leviticus 2:13
And every oblation of thy meat offering shalt thou season with salt; neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meat offering: with all thine offerings thou shalt offer salt.
Luke 14:34
Salt {is} good: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be seasoned?
Job 6:30
Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things? {my taste: Heb. my palate}
Job 12:11
Doth not the ear try words? and the mouth taste his meat? {mouth: Heb. palate}
Colossians 4:6
Let your speech {be} alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
Psalms 119:103
How sweet are thy words unto my taste! {yea, sweeter} than honey to my mouth! {taste: Heb. palate}
Hebrews 6:4-5
For {it is} impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,