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But who can eat flat, unsalted food?
    What taste is there in the white of an egg?
I have no appetite for food like that,
    and everything I eat makes me sick.[a]

Why won't God give me what I ask?
    Why won't he answer my prayer?

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  1. Job 6:7 Probable text sick; Hebrew unclear.

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