And every oblation of thy meat offering shalt thou season with salt; neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meat offering: with all thine offerings thou shalt offer salt.

For the ear trieth words, as the mouth tasteth meat. {mouth: Heb. palate}

Salt {is} good: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be seasoned?

Let your speech {be} alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.

Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things? {my taste: Heb. my palate}

For {it is} impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,

I have heard many such things: miserable comforters {are} ye all. {miserable: or, troublesome}

How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?

Doth not the ear try words? and the mouth taste his meat? {mouth: Heb. palate}

How sweet are thy words unto my taste! {yea, sweeter} than honey to my mouth! {taste: Heb. palate}

Salt {is} good: but if the salt have lost his saltness, wherewith will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with another.

Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things? {my taste: Heb. my palate}

But I have understanding as well as you; I {am} not inferior to you: yea, who knoweth not such things as these? {understanding: Heb. an heart} {I am...: Heb. I fall not lower than you} {who...: Heb. with whom are not such as these?}

I have heard many such things: miserable comforters {are} ye all. {miserable: or, troublesome}