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    Does the wild donkey bray when he has grass?
Or does the ox low over his fodder?
    Can that which has no flavor be eaten without salt?
Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?
    My soul refuses to touch them.
They are as loathsome 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.