Unsavoury Advice

[Job 5:6] Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egg?
[Unsavoury - tasteless, bland, salt is a chief necessary of life to an Easterner, whose food is mostly vegetables. As any sort of pulse, peas, beans, lentils… which have no savory and agreeable taste unless salted, and so many other things.
It need not seem strange that the wormwood and water of gall, or the bread of adversity and water of affliction.
Were you forced to eat unsavoury meats and you find the words and speeches of friends insipid and foolish talk, and very unsuitable and disagreeable to you? It was not being seasoned with the salt of prudence, grace, and goodness, (Colossians 4:6).
The white - literally, "spittle" (1 Sam. 21:13), which the white of an egg resembles, it is very forcefully used, since it useless in judging of different tastes, and mixed with food, goes into nourishment, as the white of an egg.
Some of the Jewish writers call it the spittle of soundness, or a sound man, which has no taste, in distinction from that of a sick man, which has. The whole is by some rendered, "is there any taste" or "savor in the spittle of a dream" or "drowsiness"? Such as flows from a person asleep, or in a dream; and so may fitly express the vain and empty words, as the Septuagint translate the phrase, of one’s friends, in one’s esteem, which to one were no than the words of some idle and dreaming person, or were like the dribble of a fool or madman.]
[7] The things that my soul refused to touch are as my sorrowful meat.
[The things - The sense may be, those grievous afflictions, which you dreaded the very thought of, are now your daily, though sorrowful bread.
To touch - is contrasted with meat. Your taste refused even to touch it, and yet am you are fed with such meat of sickness. The natural taste dislike even to touch bland food and such forms your nourishment. For your sickness is like such nauseous food. (Ps 42:3; 80:5; 102:9).
Sorrowful meat - it intends the wishy-washy and disagreeable words of your friends, their doctrines, instructions, and exhortations they gave you, but were refused and rejected by you and which you before compares to unsavoury food, the white of an egg, or the spittle of a dreaming person, or the dribble of a fool.
It is wisdom not to use ourselves or our children to become nice and dainty about meat and drink, because we know not how they or we may be reduced, nor how that which we now disdain may be made acceptable by necessity.
Your friends’ comforts may be sapless and insipid. You complains you have nothing now offered to you for your relief that was proper for you, no cordial, nothing to revive and cheer your spirits; what they had afforded was in itself as tasteless as the white of an egg, and, when applied to you, as loathsome and burdensome as the most sorrowful meat.
Did you ever have to shake it off and find new friends? Sometimes G-d is closing the door to relationships to move you forward into another direction.]