That which is [a]unsavory, shall it be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egg?

Such things as my soul refused to touch, as were sorrows, are my meat.

Oh that I might have my [b]desire, and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!

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Footnotes

  1. Job 6:6 Can a man’s taste delight in that, that hath no savor? meaning, that none take pleasure in affliction, seeing they cannot [do] away with things that are unsavory to the mouth.
  2. Job 6:8 Herein he sinneth double, both in wishing through impatience to die, and also in desiring of God a thing which was not agreeable to his will.

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