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Job 6:6 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: King James Version
" Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egg? "
Job 6:6
Verse in Context
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4 For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.
5 Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?
6 Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egg?
7 The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat.
8 Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me the thing that I long for!
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Job 6:1
"But Job answered and said,"
Job 6:2
"Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!"
Job 6:3
"For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up."
Job 6:4
"For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me."
Job 6:5
"Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?"
Job 6:7
"The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat."
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