Job 6:6 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Or is there any taste in the white of an egg— Job's indignation being raised, he expresses in metaphor how absurd and how nauseous to him the discourse of Eliphaz had been. Our version of the latter clause seems to be void of all connection with what goes before. Mr. Mudge supposes Job to allude, in the original words, to those medicinal potions which were administered by way of alterative; and, agreeably to his criticism, the clause should be rendered, Is there any relish in the nauseous medicinal draught? See the Observations, p. 128.