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Can that which is tasteless be eaten without melach? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?

The things that my nefesh refused to touch are like my loathsome lechem.

Who will grant that I might have my she’elah (request); oh that Eloah would grant me my tikveh!

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Is tasteless food eaten without salt,
    or is there flavor in the sap of the mallow[a]?(A)
I refuse to touch it;
    such food makes me ill.(B)

“Oh, that I might have my request,
    that God would grant what I hope for,(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Job 6:6 The meaning of the Hebrew for this phrase is uncertain.