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 salt Rather, can that be eaten which is unsavoury and saltless?

the white of an egg This is the traditional interpretation and is perhaps the most probable. Others think of some insipid herb, and render: the slime (broth) of purslain. The reference in the passage is to Job's afflictions, which he compares here to an insipid, and in next verse to a loathsome, food, cf. ch. Job 3:24. Others have thought that the reference was to the insipid harangues of the friends. But such a reference entirely breaks the connexion.