Can food that is tasteless be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?

Is there any falsehood on my lips? Can my mouth not discern evil things?

He returns no more to his house, nor does his place of residence know him any more.

While they are still beginning to flower and not ripe for cutting, they can wither away faster than any grass!

Is it of any special benefit to the Almighty that you should be righteous, or is it any gain to him that you make your ways blameless?

If I ate my morsel of bread myself, and did not share any of it with orphans --

"They are dismayed and cannot answer any more; they have nothing left to say.

I will not show partiality to anyone, nor will I confer a title on any man.

If you have any words, reply to me; speak, for I want to justify you.

because they have turned away from following him, and have not understood any of his ways,

"Has anyone said to God, 'I have endured chastisement, but I will not act wrongly any more.

Men of understanding say to me -- any wise man listening to me says --