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Job 6:6 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Can that which is unsavory
taphel (Hebrew #8602)
plaster (as gummy) or slime; (figuratively) frivolity
KJV usage: foolish things, unsavoury, untempered.
Pronounce: taw-fale'
Origin: from an unused root meaning to smear
be eaten
'akal (Hebrew #398)
to eat (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: X at all, burn up, consume, devour(-er, up), dine, eat(-er, up), feed (with), food, X freely, X in...wise(-deed, plenty), (lay) meat, X quite.
Pronounce: aw-kal'
Origin: a primitive root
without salt
melach (Hebrew #4417)
properly, powder, i.e. (specifically) salt (as easily pulverized and dissolved
KJV usage: salt((-pit)).
Pronounce: meh'-lakh
Origin: from 4414
? or is there
yesh (Hebrew #3426)
entity; used adverbially or as a copula for the substantive verb (1961); there is or are (or any other form of the verb to be, as may suit the connection)
KJV usage: (there) are, (he, it, shall, there, there may, there shall, there should) be, thou do, had, hast, (which) hath, (I, shalt, that) have, (he, it, there) is, substance, it (there) was, (there) were, ye will, thou wilt, wouldest.
Pronounce: yaysh
Origin: perhaps from an unused root meaning to stand out, or exist
any taste
ta`am (Hebrew #2940)
properly, a taste, i.e. (figuratively) perception; by implication, intelligence; transitively, a mandate
KJV usage: advice, behaviour, decree, discretion, judgment, reason, taste, understanding.
Pronounce: tah'-am
Origin: from 2938
in the white
riyr (Hebrew #7388)
saliva; by resemblance, broth
KJV usage: spittle, white (of an egg).
Pronounce: reer
Origin: from 7325
of an egg
challamuwth (Hebrew #2495)
probably purslain
KJV usage: egg.
Pronounce: khal-law-mooth'
Origin: from 2492 (in the sense of insipidity)
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Ministry on This Verse

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that which.
Job 6:25• 25How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove? (Job 6:25)
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Job 16:2• 2I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all. (Job 16:2)
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Lev. 2:13• 13And 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. (Lev. 2:13)
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Luke 14:34• 34Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his savor, wherewith shall it be seasoned? (Luke 14:34)
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Col. 4:6• 6Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man. (Col. 4:6)
taste.
Job 6:30• 30Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things? (Job 6:30)
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Job 12:11• 11Doth not the ear try words? and the mouth taste his meat? (Job 12:11)
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Job 34:3• 3For the ear trieth words, as the mouth tasteth meat. (Job 34:3)
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Psa. 119:103• 103How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth! (Psa. 119:103)
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Heb. 6:4‑5• 4For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,
 5And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, (Heb. 6:4‑5)
• Can job be expected to take his sufferings as if they were pleasant food—swallow them down, more nauseous than the slime of the egg? (“Job 3-31” by S. Ridout)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Shall that which is insipid be eaten without salt? Is there any taste in the white of an egg?