Parallel Verses

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?

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?

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 Doth the wild ass roar when he hath grass? Or crieth the ox, when he hath fodder enough? 6 That which is unsavory, shalt it be eaten without salt, or is there any taste in the white of an egg? 7 The things that sometime I might not away withal, are now my meat for very sorrow.

Cross References

Leviticus 2:13

All thy meat offerings thou shalt salt with salt: neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meat offering: but upon all thine offerings thou shalt bring salt.

Colossians 4:6

Let your speech be always well favoured and be powdered with salt, that ye may know how to answer every man.

Job 6:25

How steadfast are the words of truth! And which of you can rebuke or reprove them?

Job 6:30

whether there be any unrighteousness in my tongue, or vain words in my mouth.

Job 12:11

Have not the ears pleasure in hearing, and the mouth in tasting the thing that it eateth?

Job 16:2

"I have oft times heard such things. Miserable givers of comfort are ye, all the sort of you.

Job 34:3

For like as the mouth tasteth the meats, so the ear proveth and discerneth the words.

Psalm 119:103

O how sweet are thy words unto my throat! Yea, sweeter than honey unto my mouth!

Luke 14:34

Salt is good, but if salt have lost her saltiness, what shall be seasoned therewith?

Hebrews 6:4-5

For it is not possible that they which were once lighted, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were become partakers of the holy ghost,

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