Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
Or is there any taste in the
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 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
Ta`am
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 6:6
Verse Info
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
Or is there any taste in the
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