Job 6:6 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁶Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egg?

Job 6:6 —

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Cross-References

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Luke 14:34
Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be seasoned?
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.
Job 34:3
For the ear trieth words, as the mouth tasteth meat.
Colossians 4:6
Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
Job 12:11
Doth not the ear try words? and the mouth taste his meat?

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-7)

Eliphaz, in the beginning of his discourse, had been very sharp upon Job, and yet it does not appear that Job gave him any interruption, but heard him patiently till he had said all he had to say. Those that would make an impartial judgment of a discourse must hear it out, and take it entire. But, when he had concluded, he makes his reply, in which he speaks very feelingly. I. He represents his ca…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 6)

6. unsavoury--tasteless, insipid. Salt is a chief necessary of life to an Easterner, whose food is mostly vegetable. the white--literally, “spittle” (1Sa 21:13), which the white of an egg resembles.