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Can anything insipid be eaten without salt?
    Is there flavor in the white of an egg?
I refuse to touch them;
    they are like loathsome food to me.

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Is tasteless food eaten without salt,
    or is there flavor in the sap of the mallow[a]?(A)
I refuse to touch it;
    such food makes me ill.(B)

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Footnotes

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

20 So that to his appetite food is repulsive,
    his throat rejects the choicest nourishment.(A)

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20 so that their body finds food(A) repulsive
    and their soul loathes the choicest meal.(B)

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