A moment in scripture
Job 6:5
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Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder?
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The surrounding passage
- Job 6:3
For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up.
- Job 6:4
For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.
- Job 6:6
Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egg?
- Job 6:7
The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.