Parallel Verses

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?

Holman Bible

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

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 the wild ass bray when he has grass? Does the ox low over his fodder? 6 “Can something tasteless be eaten without salt,
Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?
7 The things that my soul refused to touch before, now by my sorrow are my food.


Cross References

Leviticus 2:13

And every offering of thy present shalt thou season with salt, and thou shalt never allow the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy present; with all thine offerings thou shalt offer salt.

Colossians 4:6

Let your word be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer each one.

Job 6:25

How forcible are the words of rectitude! But what does your argument reprove?

Job 6:30

If there is iniquity in my tongue or if my taste cannot discern the torments.

Job 12:11

Certainly the ear proves words and the mouth tastes foods.

Job 16:2

Many times I have heard such things; miserable comforters are ye all.

Job 34:3

For the ear tries words, as the mouth tastes food.

Psalm 119:103

How sweet have been thy spoken words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!

Luke 14:34

Salt is good; but if the salt has lost its savour, with what shall it be seasoned?

Hebrews 6:4-5

For it is impossible that those who once received the light and tasted of that heavenly gift and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit

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