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Bible Book – Job, chapter 6 ‘⁶ Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egg?’

One day, (in chapter 1) Job was informed that – his farm equipment (Oxen and donkeys) had been stolen by the Sabeans, lightening had struck and killed his sheep and shepherds, the Chaldeans had formed three raiding parties had slaughtered the farmhands and taken all his camels, and while at a party, all his children had been killed when the house they were in collapsed during a ferocious windstorm.

Yet Job did not blame God, his wife was no support though and said something silly. However afterward he broke out in painful pus-filled boils all over his body, so that he sat outside his house and scraped off the mess into the ashes of a past fireplace.

He was visited by three of his friends who sat near him and they were all so distressed that none of them spoke for a week. Job broke the silence by saying he wished he had never been born: After that his friends took turns in speaking starting with Eliphaz who gave his philosophy of life. His advice was to appeal to God. Job responds, and says in chapter 6 verse 6 - Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egg?

This verse has critics disagreeing on the actual wordage and meaning in this clause, but this is the only time an egg is mentioned in the whole bible of the King James Version.

Some bible commentators as Benson (https://biblehub.com/commentaries/job/6-6.htm), say Job did not appreciate Eliphaz’ speech as ‘unsavoury, and tasteless, like unsavoury food, instead of satisfying and instructing him, it had been nauseous and offensive’.

Nonetheless later on God and Job had a serious discussion where God told Job some real facts of life which humbled Job quite a bit. However, the story had a happy ending and is worth the reading.

The book of Job.

A Stolz