What is food without salt? What is more tasteless than the white of an egg?
We hear with our ears, taste with our tongues,
I have often heard this, and it offers no comfort.
Think about my words, as you would taste food.
The truth is always painful, but your arguments prove nothing.
I know right from wrong, and I am not telling lies.
Do oxen and wild donkeys cry out in distress unless they are hungry?
That's how my food tastes, and my appetite is gone.
Your teachings are sweeter than honey.
Salt is offered when you make an agreement with me, so sprinkle salt on these sacrifices.
You are like salt for everyone on earth. But if salt no longer tastes like salt, how can it make food salty? All it is good for is to be thrown out and walked on.
Salt is good, but if it no longer tastes like salt, how can it be made to taste salty again?
Be pleasant and hold their interest when you speak the message. Choose your words carefully and be ready to give answers to anyone who asks questions.