5. Does the wild donkey bray when it has grass?Does the ox low over its fodder?
6. Can anything insipid be eaten without salt?Is there flavor in the white of an egg?
7. I refuse to touch them;they are like loathsome food to me.
8. Oh, that I might have my request,and that God would grant what I long for:
9. Even that God would decide to crush me,that he would put forth his hand and cut me off!
10. Then I should still have consolationand could exult through unremitting pain,because I have not transgressed the commands of the Holy One.