Parallel Verses

Lexham Expanded Bible

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

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?

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 over grass, or [the] ox bellow over its fodder? 6 Can tasteless [food] be eaten without salt, or is there taste in the white of a marshmallow plant? 7 {I refused} to touch [them]; they [are] like {food that will make me ill}.


Cross References

Leviticus 2:13

Also all of your grain offerings you must season with salt; you must not omit the salt of your God's covenant from your offering.

Colossians 4:6

Let your speech always [be] with grace, seasoned with salt, so that [you] may know how it is necessary for you to answer each one.

Job 6:25

How painful are {upright words}! But what does {your reproof} reprove?

Job 6:30

Is there injustice on my tongue? Or can my palate not discern calamity?

Job 12:11

Does not [the] ear test words and [the] palate taste food for itself?

Job 16:2

"I have heard many [things] like these; all of you [are] {miserable comforters}.

Job 34:3

for [the] ear tests words, and [the] palate tastes {food}.

Psalm 119:103

How smooth [are] your words to my palate, more than honey in my mouth.

Luke 14:34

"Now salt [is] good, but if salt becomes tasteless, with what will it be made salty?

Hebrews 6:4-5

For [it is] impossible [concerning] those who have once been enlightened, and have tasted the heavenly gift, and become sharers of the Holy Spirit,

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