Job 6:6-8
Expanded Bible
6 ·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].
7 I refuse to touch it;
such food makes me sick [C a word connected to menstruation and therefore ritual uncleanness; Lev. 15:19–30].
8 “How I wish that I might have what I ask for
and that God would give me what I hope for.
Job 6:6-8
New International Version
6 Is tasteless food eaten without salt,
or is there flavor in the sap of the mallow[a]?(A)
7 I 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)
Footnotes
- Job 6:6 The meaning of the Hebrew for this phrase is uncertain.
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