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“Does the wild donkey bray when it has grass?
    Does an ox bellow when it has fodder?
Can tasteless food be eaten without salt?
    Is there any flavor in the whites of eggs?
I refuse to even touch them;
    they are like uncleanness in my food.

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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.