Bible Strands
Job 6:6
Is tasteless food eaten without salt, or is there flavor in the white of an egg?
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Job addresses his three companions during a moment of intense personal anguish, using rhetorical questions to explain his refusal to eat.
The words — The Hebrew תָּ֭פֵל (tafel) translates to "tasteless" and מֶ֑לַח (melach) means "salt," establishing a direct comparison between unseasoned food and the white of an egg.
The thread — The text links sensory perception to spiritual discernment in Job 34:3, while Leviticus 2:13 commands salt to remain on all grain offerings as a covenant requirement.
Why it lands — Job states that food without salt and egg whites lack flavor, then applies this physical fact to argue that his own words and suffering are equally insipid without the covenant truth his friends ignore.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egg?
Cross-references
- Job 34:3 For the ear tests words as the mouth tastes food.
- Leviticus 2:13 And you shall season each of your grain offerings with salt. You must not leave the salt of the covenant of your God out of your grain offering; you are to add salt to each of your offerings.
- Job 6:30 Is there iniquity on my tongue? Can my mouth not discern malice?
- Job 12:11 Does not the ear test words as the tongue tastes its food?
- Luke 14:34 Salt is good, but if the salt loses its savor, with what will it be seasoned?
- Colossians 4:6 Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.
- Job 6:25 How painful are honest words! But what does your argument prove?
- Job 16:2 “I have heard many things like these; miserable comforters are you all.
- Psalms 119:103 How sweet are Your words to my taste—sweeter than honey in my mouth!
- Hebrews 6:4 It is impossible for those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, who have shared in the Holy Spirit,