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Does the wild ass bray over grass,
or the ox bellow over its fodder?
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]

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  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”

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