Eggs
Simple animal protein and metaphor for false hopes and good gifts.
Scripture
Job 6:6
6 Can that which has no flavor be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?
Luke 11:12
12 Or if he asks for an egg, he won't give him a scorpion, will he?
Isaiah 10:14
14 My hand has found the riches of the peoples like a nest, and like one gathers eggs that are abandoned, have I gathered all the earth. There was no one who moved their wing, or that opened their mouth, or chirped."
References
- Job 6:6
- Luke 11:12
- Isaiah 10:14