Job 6:6 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁶ Can that which is tasteless be eaten without salt, or is there any flavor in the juice of mallows?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ Can that which has no taste to it be eaten without salt? Or is there any flavor in the white of an egg?

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ Can that which hath no savor be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?

Common English Bible

⁶ Is tasteless food eaten without salt, or does egg white have taste?

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ Or can one eat bland food, which is not seasoned with salt? Or can anyone taste that which, if tasted, causes death?

Job 6:6 Cross References

Colossians 4:6

Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer everyone.

Leviticus 2:13

All your grain offerings you shall season with salt; you shall not omit from your grain offerings the salt of the covenant with your God; with all your offerings you shall offer salt.

Luke 14:34

“Salt is good, but if salt has lost its taste, how can its saltiness be restored?

Psalm 119:103

How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth!

Job 34:3

for the ear tests words as the palate tastes food.

Job 16:2

“I have heard many such things; miserable comforters are you all.

Job 12:11

Does not the ear test words as the palate tastes food?

Job 6:30

Is there any wrong on my tongue? Cannot my taste discern calamity?

Job 6:25

How forceful are honest words! But your reproof, what does it reprove?

Matthew 5:13

“You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste, how can its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything but is thrown out and trampled under foot.

Job 6:5

Does the wild ass bray over its grass or the ox low over its fodder?

Job 6:7

My appetite refuses to touch them; they are like food that is loathsome to me.