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Job 6:6
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Is bland food eaten without salt?Is there flavor in an egg white?
Can that which has no flavor be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?
Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egg?
Can that which is tasteless be eaten without salt, or is there any taste in the juice of the mallow?
Tasteless food is not eaten without salt, and there is no flavor in the white of an egg.
Can food that is tasteless be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?
"Can something tasteless be eaten without salt, Or is there any taste in the juice of an alkanet plant?
Can that which has no flavor be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?
That which is vnsauerie, shall it be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egge?
Can something tasteless be eaten without salt,Or is there any taste in the slime of a yolk?
Is tasteless food eaten without salt, or is there flavor in the white of an egg?
What is food without salt? What is more tasteless than the white of an egg?
Can food without flavor be eaten without salt? Do egg whites have any taste?
Shall that which is insipid be eaten without salt? Is there any taste in the white of an egg?
Food without salt does not taste good, and the white of an egg has no taste.
Or can that which is unsavory be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?
But who can eat flat, unsalted food? What taste is there in the white of an egg?
Can tasteless food be eaten without salt, or is there taste in the white of a marshmallow plant?
Are tasteless things eaten without salt? Or is there taste in the slime of an egg?
Maye a thynge be eaten vnseasoned, or without salt? What taist hath ye whyte within the yoke an egg?
Can that which hath no savor be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?
Will a man take food which has no taste without salt? or is there any taste in the soft substance of purslain?
That which is vnsauerie, shall it be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the whyte of an egge?
Can that which hath no savour be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the juice of mallows?
Can that which is vnsauery, bee eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egge?
Shall bread be eaten without salt? or again, is there taste in empty words?
Can that which hath no savour be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egg?
Ether whethir a thing vnsauery may be etun, which is not maad sauery bi salt? Ether whether ony man may taaste a thing, which tastid bryngith deeth? For whi to an hungri soule, yhe, bittir thingis semen to be swete;
Can that which has no savor be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?
Can that which is unsavory be eaten without salt? or is there [any] taste in the white of an egg?
Can flavorless food be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?
Don't people complain about unsalted food? Does anyone want the tasteless white of an egg?
Can something that has no taste be eaten without salt? Is there any taste in the white of an egg?
Can that which is tasteless be eaten without salt, or is there any flavor in the juice of mallows?
Can that which hath no savour be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?
Or can an unsavoury thing be eaten, that is not seasoned with salt? or can a man taste that which, when tasted, bringeth death?
Can that which is tasteless be eaten without salt, or is there any taste in the slime of the purslane?
Eaten is an insipid thing without salt? Is there sense in the drivel of dreams?
"Can something tasteless be eaten without salt, Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
that which: Job 6:25, Job 16:2, Leviticus 2:13, Luke 14:34, Colossians 4:6
taste: Job 6:30, Job 12:11, Job 34:3, Psalms 119:103, Hebrews 6:4, Hebrews 6:5
Reciprocal: Job 12:3 - I am not inferior to you Mark 9:50 - is good
Cross-References
But Noah found favor and grace in the eyes of the LORD.
Now Noah became the father of three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
"For behold, I, even I, will bring a flood of waters on the earth, to destroy all life under the heavens in which there is the breath and spirit of life; everything that is on the land shall die.
"But I will establish My covenant (solemn promise, formal agreement) with you; and you shall come into the ark—you and your [three] sons and your wife, and your sons' wives with you.
So the LORD changed His mind about the harm which He had said He would do to His people.
"God is not a man, that He should lie, Nor a son of man, that He should repent. Has He said, and will He not do it? Or has He spoken and will He not make it good and fulfill it?
'Oh that they had such a heart in them, that they would fear [and worship Me with awe-filled reverence and profound respect] and keep all My commandments always, so that it may go well with them and with their children forever!
"O that they were wise, that they understood this, That they could discern their future and ultimate fate!
"For the LORD will vindicate His people, And will have compassion on His servants, When He sees that their strength (hand) is gone, And none remains, whether bond or free.
"I regret that I made Saul king, for he has turned away from following Me and has not carried out My commands." Samuel was angry [over Saul's failure] and he cried out to the LORD all night.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt?.... As any sort of pulse, peas, beans, lentiles, c. which have no savoury and agreeable taste unless salted, and so many other things and are disagreeable to men, and not relished by them, and more especially things bitter and unpleasant; and therefore Job intimates, it need not seem strange that the wormwood and water of gall, or the bread of adversity and water of affliction, he was fed with, should be so distasteful to him, and he should show such a nausea of it, and an aversion to it, and complain thereof as he did: though some apply this to the words and speeches of Eliphaz, and his friends he represented, which with Job were insipid and foolish talk, and very unsuitable and disagreeable to him, yea, loathed and abhorred by him, not being seasoned with the salt of prudence, grace, and goodness, see Colossians 4:6;
or is there [any] taste in the white of an egg? none at all. The same things are designed by this as the former. Mr. Broughton renders it, "the white of the yolk"; and Kimchi says d it signifies, in the language of the Rabbins, the red part of the yolk, the innermost part; but others, from the use of the word in the Arabic language, interpret it of the froth of milk e, which is very tasteless and insipid: but the first of the words we render "white" always signifies "spittle"; and some of the Jewish writers f call it the spittle of soundness, or a sound man, which has no taste, in distinction from that of a sick man, which has; and the latter word comes from one which signifies to dream; and Jarchi observes, that some so understand it here; and the whole is by some rendered, "is there any taste" or "savour in the spittle of a dream" or "drowsiness" g? such as flows from a person asleep, or in a dream; and so may fitly express the vain and empty words, as the Septuagint translate the phrase, of Job's friends, in his esteem, which to him were no than the words of some idle and dreaming person, or were like the dribble of a fool or madman, as David mimicked, 1 Samuel 21:13; and it is observed h, that the word "spittle" is very emphatically used, since it useless in judging of different tastes, and mixed with food, goes into nourishment, as the white of an egg.
d Sepher Shorash, rad. ×××; so Ben Melech. e Hottinger. Smegma Oriental. l. 1. c. 7. p. 152. Hinckeman. Praefat. ad Alcoran. p. 29. f R. Issac in Kimchi ibid. Ben Melech Ben Gersom in loc so some in Bar Tzemach; "saliva sanitatis", Gussetius, p. 260. g ×ר×ר ××××ת "in saliva somnolentiae", Schultens. h Scheuchzer. Physic. Sacr. vol. 4. p. 670.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Can that which is unsavoury - Which is insipid, or without taste.
Be eaten without salt - It is necessary to add salt in order to make it either palatable or wholesome. The literal truth of this no one can doubt, Insipid food cannot be relished, nor would it long sustain life. âThe Orientals eat their bread often with mere salt, without any other addition except some dry and pounded summer-savory, which last is the common method at Aleppo.â Russellâs Natural History of Aleppo, p. 27. It should be remembered, also, that the bread of the Orientals is commonly mere unleavened cakes; see Rosenmuller, Alte u. neue Morgenland, on Genesis 18:6. The idea of Job in this adage or proverb is, that there was a fitness and propriety in things. Certain things went together, and were necessary companions. One cannot be expected without the other; one is incomplete without the other. Insipid food requires salt in order to make it palatable and nutritious, and so it is proper that suffering and lamentation should be united.
There was a reason for his complaints, as there was for adding salt to unsavory food. Much perplexity, however, has been felt in regard to this whole passage; Job 6:6-7. Some have supposed that Job means to rebuke Eliphaz severely for his harangue on the necessity of patience, which he characterizes as insipid, impertinent, and disgusting to him; as being in fact as unpleasant to his soul as the white of an egg was to the taste. Dr. Good explains it as meaning, âDoth that which has nothing of seasoning, nothing of a pungent or irritating power within it, produce pungency or irritation? I too should be quiet and complain not, if I had nothing provocative or acrimonious; but alas! the food I am doomed to partake of is the very calamity which is most acute to my soul, that which I most loathe, and which is most grievous or trying to my palate.â But the real sense of this first part of the verse is, I think, that which is expressed above - that insipid food requires proper condiment, and that in his sufferings there was a real ground for lamentation and complaint - as there was for making use of salt in that which is unsavory. I see no reason to think that he meant in this to reproach Eliphaz for an insipid and unmeaning address.
Or is there any taste in the white of an egg? - Critics and commentators have been greatly divided about the meaning of this. The Septuagint renders it, ÎµÎ¹Ì Î´ÎµÌ ÎºÎ±Î¹Ì ÎµÌÏÏÎ¹Ì Î³ÎµÏ Íμα εÌν ÏÌηÌμαÏι κενοιÍÏ ei de kai esti geuma en reÌmasi kenois; is there any taste in vain words? Jerome (Vulgate), âcan anyone taste that which being tasted produces death?â The Targums render it substantially as it is in our version. The Hebrew word rendered âwhiteâ (ר×ר rıÌyr) means properly spittle; 1 Samuel 21:13. If applied to an egg, it means the white of it, as resembling spittle. The word rendered âeggâ (××××ּת challaÌmuÌth) occurs nowhere else in the Scriptures. If it be regarded as derived from ××× chaÌlam, to sleep, or dream, it may denote somnolency or dreams, and then fatuity, folly, or a foolish speech, as resembling dreams; and many have supposed that Job meant to characterize the speech of Eliphaz as of this description.
The word may mean, as it does in Syriac, a species of herb, the âpurslainâ (Gesenius), proverbial for its insipidity among the Arabs, Greeks, and Romans, but which was used as a salad; and the whole phrase here may denote purslain-broth, and hence, an insipid discourse. This is the interpretation of Gesenius. But the more common and more probable explanation is that of our common version, denoting the white of an egg. But what is the point of the remark as Job uses it? That it is a proverbial expression, is apparent; but in what way Job meant to apply it, is not so clear. The Jews say that he meant to apply it to the speech of Eliphaz as being insipid and dull, without anything to penetrate the heart or to enliven the fancy; a speech as disagreeable to the mind as the white of an egg was insipid to the taste. Rosenmuller supposes that he refers to his afflictions as being as unpleasant to bear as the white of an egg was to the taste. It seems to me that the sense of all the proverbs used here is about the same, and that they mean, âthere is a reason for everything which occurs. The ass brays and the ox lows only when destitute of food. That which is insipid is unpleasant, and the white of an egg is loathsome. So with my afflictions. They produce loathing and disgust, My very food Job 6:7 is disagreeable, and everything seems tasteless as the most insipid food would. Hence the language which I have used - language spoken not without reason, and expressive of this state of the soul.â
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 6:6. Can that which is unsavoury — Mr. Good renders this verse as follows: Doth insipid food without a mixture of salt, yea, doth the white of the egg give forth pungency? Which he thus illustrates: "Doth that which hath nothing of seasoning, nothing of a pungent or irritable power within it, produce pungency or irritation? I too should be quiet and complain not, if I had nothing provocative or acrimonious, but, alas! the food I am doomed to partake of is the very calamity which is most acute to my soul - that which I most loathe, and which is most grievous or trying to my palate." Some render the original, Is there any dependence on the drivel of dreams?
There have been a great variety of interpretations given of this verse. I could add another; but that of Mr. Good is as likely to be correct as that of any other critic.
