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Does the wild ass bray when he has grass,
    or the ox low over his fodder?
Can that which is tasteless be eaten without salt,
    or is there any taste in the slime of the purslane?[a]
My appetite refuses to touch them;
    they are as food that is loathsome to me.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Job 6:6 The meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain
  2. Job 6:7 Heb obscure

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