SEV Biblia, Chapter 6:6
¿Por ventura se comerá lo desabrido sin sal? ¿O habrá gusto en la clara del huevo?
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Job 6:6
Verse 6. Can that which is unsavoury ] Mr. Good renders this verse as follows: Doth insipid food without a mixture of salt, yea, doth the white of the egg give forth pungency? Which he thus illustrates: "Doth that which hath nothing of seasoning, nothing of a pungent or irritable power within it, produce pungency or irritation? I too should be quiet and complain not, if I had nothing provocative or acrimonious, but, alas! the food I am doomed to partake of is the very calamity which is most acute to my soul-that which I most loathe, and which is most grievous or trying to my palate." Some render the original, Is there any dependence on the drivel of dreams? There have been a great variety of interpretations given of this verse. I could add another; but that of Mr. Good is as likely to be correct as that of any other critic.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-7 - Job still justifies himself in his complaints. In addition to outwar troubles, the inward sense of God's wrath took away all his courage an resolution. The feeling sense of the wrath of God is harder to bea than any outward afflictions. What then did the Saviour endure in the garden and on the cross, when he bare our sins, and his soul was made sacrifice to Divine justice for us! Whatever burden of affliction, i body or estate, God is pleased to lay upon us, we may well submit to it as long as he continues to us the use of our reason, and the peace of our conscience; but if either of these is disturbed, our case is very pitiable. Job reflects upon his friends for their censures. He complains he had nothing offered for his relief, but what was in itsel tasteless, loathsome, and burdensome.
Original Hebrew
היאכל 398 תפל 8602 מבלי 1097 מלח 4417 אם 518 ישׁ 3426 טעם 2940 בריר 7388 חלמות׃ 2495
