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 a wild donkey bray when it has grass, or an ox bellow when it has fodder?
6
Or is there any taste in the
Cross References
Leviticus 2:13
Season every grain offering with salt. Do not leave the salt of the covenant of your God out of your grain offering. All of your offerings must have salt.
Colossians 4:6
Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.
Job 6:25
Honest words are so painful! But what do your arguments prove?
Job 6:30
Is there any wickedness on my lips? Can my mouth not discern destructive malice?
Job 12:11
Does not the ear test words as the tongue tastes food?
Job 16:2
I have heard many such things. You are all miserable comforters!
Job 34:3
For the ear tests words like the palate tastes food.
Psalm 119:103
How sweet are your words to my taste! Sweeter than honey to my mouth!
Luke 14:34
Salt is good. But if it loses its saltiness it cannot be made salty again.
Hebrews 6:4-5
Those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit,