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OET (OET-LV) Therefore the salt is good, but if the salt may_be_made_tasteless, with what it_will_be_being_seasoned?
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / parables
καλὸν οὖν τὸ ἅλας
good_‹is› therefore the salt
To help the people in the crowd understand what he has been teaching, Jesus provides an illustration. If it would be helpful to your readers, you could indicate that explicitly. Alternate translation: “Then Jesus gave the crowd this illustration to help them understand. ‘Salt is certainly useful’”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / activepassive
ἐὰν & καὶ τὸ ἅλας μωρανθῇ
if & (Some words not found in SR-GNT: καλὸν οὖν τὸ ἅλας ἐὰν δὲ τὸ ἅλας μωρανθῇ ἐν τίνι ἀρτυθήσεται)
If it would be helpful in your language, you could express this with an active form. Alternate translation: “if something indeed causes salt to lose its flavor”
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / activepassive
ἐν τίνι ἀρτυθήσεται
with what ˱it˲_/will_be_being/_seasoned
If it would be helpful in your language, you could express this with an active form. Alternate translation: “what can make it salty again”
Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / rquestion
ἐν τίνι ἀρτυθήσεται?
with what ˱it˲_/will_be_being/_seasoned
Jesus is using this question as a teaching tool. He does not expect the crowd to tell him how the flavor of salt can be restored. If it would be helpful in your language, you could translate his words as a statement. Alternate translation: “nothing can make it salty again.”
14:34 Salt . . . if it loses its flavor: Sodium chloride cannot actually lose its saltiness. Jesus might be speaking hypothetically (if salt were to lose), or he might be referring to a combination of minerals that included salt. The salt around the Dead Sea was a mixture of sodium chloride and other minerals. When the sodium chloride was removed, what was left behind was “salt” without saltiness.
OET (OET-LV) Therefore the salt is good, but if the salt may_be_made_tasteless, with what it_will_be_being_seasoned?
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Greek words that they’re translated from.
Acknowledgements: The SR Greek text, lemmas, morphology, and English gloss (7th line) are all thanks to the SR-GNT.