Can that which is unsavoury
8602 {8602} Primeתָּפֵלtaphel{taw-fale'}
From an unused root meaning to smear; plaster (as gummy) or slime; (figuratively) frivolity.
be eaten
398 {0398} Primeאָכַל'akal{aw-kal'}
A primitive root; to eat (literally or figuratively).
z8735 <8735> Grammar
Stem - Niphal (See H8833) Mood - Imperfect (See H8811) Count - 1602
without
x4480 (4480) Complementמִןmin{min}
For H4482; properly a part of; hence (prepositionally), from or out of in many senses.
x1097 (1097) Complementבְּלִיb@liy{bel-ee'}
From H1086; properly failure, that is, nothing or destruction; usually (with preposition) without, not yet, because not, as long as, etc.
salt?
4417 {4417} Primeמֶּלַחmelach{meh'-lakh}
From H4414; properly powder, that is, (specifically) salt (as easily pulverized and dissolved).
or
x518 (0518) Complementאִם'im{eem}
A primitive particle; used very widely as demonstrative, lo!; interrogitive, whether?; or conditional, if, although; also Oh that!, when; hence as a negative, not.
is there
3426 {3426} Primeיֵשׁyesh{yaysh}
Perhaps from an unused root meaning to stand out, or exist; entity; used adverbially or as a copula for the substantive verb ( H1961); there is or are (or any other form of the verb to be, as may suit the connection).
[ any] taste
2940 {2940} Primeטַעַםta`am{tah'-am}
From H2938; properly a taste, that is, (figuratively) perception; by implication intelligence; transitively a mandate.
in the white
7388 {7388} Primeרִירriyr{reer}
From H7325; saliva; by resemblance broth.
of an egg?
2495 {2495} Primeחַלָּמוּתchallamuwth{khal-law-mooth'}
From H2492 (in the sense of insipidity); probably purslain. |
Job 6:6
_ _ unsavoury — tasteless, insipid. Salt is a chief necessary of life to an Easterner, whose food is mostly vegetable.
_ _ the white — literally, “spittle” (1 Samuel 21:13), which the white of an egg resembles. |
Job 6:6
Can, &c. — Do men use to eat unsavoury meats with delight, or without complaint? Men commonly complain of their meat when it is but unsavoury, how much more when it is so bitter as mine is? |
Job 6:6
Can that which is (e) unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there [any] taste in the white of an egg?
(e) Can a man's taste delight in that, which has no savour? meaning that no one takes pleasure in affliction seeing they cannot do away with things that are unsavoury to the mouth. |
- that which:
Job 6:25 How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?
Job 16:2 I have heard many such things: miserable comforters [are] ye all.
Leviticus 2:13 And every oblation of thy meat offering shalt thou season with salt; neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meat offering: with all thine offerings thou shalt offer salt.
Luke 14:34 Salt [is] good: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be seasoned?
Colossians 4:6 Let your speech [be] alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
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- taste:
Job 6:30 Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?
Job 12:11 Doth not the ear try words? and the mouth taste his meat?
Job 34:3 For the ear trieth words, as the mouth tasteth meat.
Psalms 119:103 How sweet are thy words unto my taste! [yea, sweeter] than honey to my mouth!
Hebrews 6:4-5 For [it is] impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, ... And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come,
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