Parallel Verses

Holman Bible

Is bland food eaten without salt?
Is there flavor in an egg white?

New American Standard Bible

“Can something tasteless be eaten without salt,
Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?

King James Version

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

International Standard Version

Tasteless food isn't eaten without salt, is it? Is there any taste in an egg white?

A Conservative Version

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

American Standard Version

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

Amplified


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

Bible in Basic English

Will a man take food which has no taste without salt? or is there any taste in the soft substance of purslain?

Darby Translation

Shall that which is insipid be eaten without salt? Is there any taste in the white of an egg?

Julia Smith Translation

Shall that unseasoned be eaten without salt? if there is taste in purslain slime?

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

Can tasteless [food] be eaten without salt, or is there taste in the white of a marshmallow plant?

Modern King James verseion

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

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

That which is unsavory, shalt it be eaten without salt, or is there any taste in the white of an egg?

NET Bible

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

New Heart English Bible

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

The Emphasized Bible

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

Webster

Can that which is unsavory be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egg?

World English Bible

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

Youngs Literal Translation

Eaten is an insipid thing without salt? Is there sense in the drivel of dreams?

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
תּפל 
Taphel 
Usage: 7

be eaten
אכל 
'akal 
Usage: 809

מלח 
melach 
Usage: 28

or is there
ישׁ 
Yesh 
is, be, have, there,
Usage: 135

in the white
ריר 
Riyr 
Usage: 2

References

American

Easton

Fausets

Hastings

Context Readings

Job's Second Speech: A Response To Eliphaz

5 Does a wild donkey bray over fresh grass
or an ox low over its fodder?
6 Is bland food eaten without salt?
Is there flavor in an egg white?
7 I refuse to touch them;
they are like contaminated food.

Cross References

Leviticus 2:13

You are to season each of your grain offerings with salt; you must not omit from your grain offering the salt of the covenant with your God. You are to present salt with each of your offerings.

Colossians 4:6

Your speech should always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you should answer each person.

Job 6:25

How painful honest words can be!
But what does your rebuke prove?

Job 6:30

Is there injustice on my tongue
or can my palate not taste disaster?


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Job 12:11

Doesn’t the ear test words
as the palate tastes food?

Job 16:2

I have heard many things like these.
You are all miserable comforters.

Job 34:3

Doesn’t the ear test words
as the palate tastes food?

Psalm 119:103

How sweet Your word is to my taste—
sweeter than honey in my mouth.

Luke 14:34

“Now, salt is good, but if salt should lose its taste, how will it be made salty?

Hebrews 6:4-5

For it is impossible to renew to repentance those who were once enlightened, who tasted the heavenly gift, became companions with the Holy Spirit,

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