If I wash myself with snow, and cleanse my hands with lye,

In some caustic occasions severe abdominal pain, fever, shock, and delirium can all be symptoms.

Months of bitterness and frustration are palpable through a caustic smile. And now I just wait.

For though you wash yourself with lye, and use much soap, yet your iniquity is marked before me, says the Lord Yahweh.

Naoufel's usually caustic views on people and power in his country and the Arab world, often pack a strong punch with his pretty sizable readership.