Can that which is tasteless be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egg?
All Commentaries on Job 6:6 Go To Job 6
John Chrysostom
AD 407
Sores and pus were not enough. A new affliction is added. Job’s disease has destroyed his entire sensitivity to the extent that even his nourishment has become a torture for him. Indeed, Job says, the nauseating smell of gangrene has deprived him of the capability to distinguish sensations. Is there anything more painful than that torment? Neither sleep gave him rest nor food nourished him. “As the smell of a lion,” Job says. That wild beast, in fact, gives a horrible stench.
