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Can tasteless food be eaten without[a] salt,
or is there taste in the white of a marshmallow plant?
I refused[b] to touch them;
they are like food that will make me ill.[c]
O that[d] my request may come,
and that God may grant my hope,

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Footnotes

  1. Job 6:6 Hebrew “from without”
  2. Job 6:7 Literally “My soul/throat refuses”
  3. Job 6:7 Literally “the illness of my bread/food”
  4. Job 6:8 Literally “Who would give”

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.