Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
unsavoury—tasteless, insipid. Salt is a chief necessary of life to an Easterner, whose food is mostly vegetable.
the white—literally, "spittle" (I Samuel 21:13), which the white of an egg resembles.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Job 6:6:
Job 1:22
Jeremiah 23:13
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