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Does the wild ass bray when it has grass? Or does the ox low over its fodder?

Can that which has no taste to it be eaten without salt? Or is there any flavor in the white of an egg?

[These afflictions] my soul refuses to touch! Such things are like diseased food to me [sickening and repugnant]!

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Does a wild donkey(A) bray(B) when it has grass,
    or an ox bellow when it has fodder?(C)
Is tasteless food eaten without salt,
    or is there flavor in the sap of the mallow[a]?(D)
I refuse to touch it;
    such food makes me ill.(E)

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Footnotes

  1. Job 6:6 The meaning of the Hebrew for this phrase is uncertain.