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Does a wild donkey cry out when it has enough grass?
    Does an ox call out when it has plenty of food?
Is food that doesn’t have any taste eaten without salt?
    Is there any flavor in the sap of a mallow plant?
I refuse to touch that kind of food.
    It makes me sick.

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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.