The animal that is not treated properly will make his displeasure known through audible complaints (v. 5); something that is tasteless is not eaten (v. 6). As an “assertion in interrogative form” (Magary 2005: 290), Job builds on common experience with his friends, justifying the expression of his displeasure in complaint. This becomes clear in his explicit rejection in 6:7.89 This disputatious rhetoric continues in the rhetorical questions in 6:11–13. Related by the images of strength, Job asks