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Does a wild donkey bray over fresh grass
    or an ox bellow over his fodder?
Is something bland eaten without salt,
    is there taste in the white of an egg?
My soul refuses to touch them;
    they are like sickening food to me.

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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.