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·Tasteless food is not [L Would tasteless food be…?] eaten without salt,
    and ·there is no [L is there…?] flavor in the ·white of an egg [or juice of a weed; C Job’s “food” (his lot in life) is inedible].
I refuse to touch it;
    such food makes me sick [C a word connected to menstruation and therefore ritual uncleanness; Lev. 15:19–30].

“How I wish that I might have what I ask for
    and that God would give me what I hope 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.