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
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?
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 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,