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Or can an unsavoury thing be eaten, that is not seasoned with salt? or can a man taste that which when tasted bringeth death?

The things which before my soul would not touch, now, through anguish are my meats.

Who will grant that my request may come: and that God may give me what I look 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.