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A wild donkey does not complain when it has grass to eat.
    An ox is quiet when it has its food.
You cannot enjoy food that has no salt in it.
    The white part of an egg is not nice to eat on its own.
I cannot eat that kind of food.
    It makes me ill.

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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.