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“Can something that has no taste to it be eaten without salt?
Or is there any flavor in the white of an egg?

“My soul refuses to touch them;
Such things are like loathsome food to me [sickening and repugnant].


“Oh that my request would come to pass,
And that God would grant me the thing that I long for!

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Is tasteless food eaten without salt,
    or is there flavor in the sap of the mallow[a]?(A)
I refuse to touch it;
    such food makes me ill.(B)

“Oh, that I might have my request,
    that God would grant what I hope for,(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Job 6:6 The meaning of the Hebrew for this phrase is uncertain.