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Job 6:6

Job 6:6
Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egg?

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat. Meaning either the above things, that which is unsavoury, and the white of an egg, of any other food, which in the time of his…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

Can that which is unsavoury - Which is insipid, or without taste. Be eaten without salt - It is necessary to add salt in order to make it either palatable or wholesome. The literal truth of this no…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Job 6:1-7

Eliphaz, in the beginning of his discourse, had been very sharp upon Job, and yet it does not appear that Job gave him any interruption, but heard him patiently till he had said all he had to say.…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

Job 6:5-6

Job's complaints are proof of his pain, for does any creature complain when it has what its nature desires? The "braying" and "lowing" here are those expressing discontent or want.

be eaten without…