Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egg?
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Can that which hath no savor be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?
WEB
Is tasteless food eaten without salt, or is there flavor in the white of an egg?
YLT
Eaten is an insipid thing without salt? Is there sense in the drivel of dreams?
DBT
Shall that which is insipid be eaten without salt? Is there any taste in the white of an egg?
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentJob — The canonical wisdom-literature interrogation of undeserved suffering. A prose frame enclosing three cycles of dialogue, a late Elihu interrupt, and a whirlwind theophany that does not answer the question — it relativizes it.
- Author
- Anonymous. Talmudic tradition names Moses (Bava Batra 14b); internal features (patriarchal setting, no Mosaic Law reference, Job sacrificing as family head, *qesitah* currency of Gen 33:19) suggest patriarchal-era composition or at least tradition-origin.
- Date
- Traditional: patriarchal period, c. 2000–1800 BC. Critical proposals scatter across pre-exilic to post-exilic. §7.9 surfaces; Pastor Marc's drawer takes the position.