Job 6:6, Jer 23:13 | JFB | STEP | 6. unsavoury —tasteless, insipid. Salt is a chief necessary of life to an Easterner, whose food is mostly vegetable. the white —literally, "spittle" ( ), which the white of an egg resembles.

Job 6:6

6. unsavoury—tasteless, insipid. Salt is a chief necessary of life to an Easterner, whose food is mostly vegetable.

the white—literally, "spittle" (1Sa 21:13), which the white of an egg resembles.

13. folly—literally, "insipidity," "unsavouriness" (Job 6:6), not having the salt of godliness (Col 4:6).

in Baal—in the name of Baal; in connection with his worship (see Jer 2:8).

caused . . . to err— (Isa 9:16).