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Job 6:5-7
Contemporary English Version

5 Do oxen and wild donkeys
cry out in distress
    unless they are hungry?
6 What is food without salt?
What is more tasteless
    than the white of an egg?[a]
7 That's how my food tastes,
    and my appetite is gone.

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  1. 6.6 What is more tasteless … egg: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.
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Job 6:5-7
New International Version

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

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