Job 6:6-8

Contemporary English Version

⁶What is food without salt?
What is more tasteless
than the white of an egg?^[a]
⁷That's how my food tastes,
and my appetite is gone.

* ⁸How I wish that God
would answer my prayer

6.6 What is more tasteless … egg: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.

Job 6:6-8

New International Version

⁶Is tasteless food eaten without salt,
or is there flavor in the sap of the mallow^[a]?^(A)
⁷I refuse to touch it;
such food makes me ill.^(B)

⁸“Oh, that I might have my request,
that God would grant what I hope for,^(C)

Contemporary English Version (CEV)

New International Version (NIV)