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Job 12:11
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Doesn’t the ear test wordsas the palate tastes food?
Doesn't the ear try words, Even as the palate tastes its food?
Doth not the ear try words? and the mouth taste his meat?
Does not the ear test words as the palate tastes food?
The ear tests words as the tongue tastes food.
Does not the ear test words, as the tongue tastes food?
"Does the ear not put words to the test, Just as the palate tastes its food [distinguishing between the desirable and the undesirable]?
"Does the ear not put words to the test, As the palate tastes its food?
Doesn't the ear try words, Even as the palate tastes its food?
Doeth not the eares discerne the words? and the mouth taste meate for it selfe?
Does not the ear test words,As the palate tastes its food?
Does not the ear test words as the tongue tastes its food?
Shouldn't the ear test words, just as the palate tastes food?
Doth not the ear try words, as the palate tasteth food?
But just as the tongue tastes food, the ears test the words they hear.
The ear hears the words, and the palate tastes food.
But just as your tongue enjoys tasting food, your ears enjoy hearing words.
Does not the ear test words and the palate taste food for itself?
Does the ear not try words, and the mouth taste food for itself?
Haue not the eares pleasure in hearinge, and the mouth in tastinge the thinge that it eateth?
Doth not the ear try words, Even as the palate tasteth its food?
Are not words tested by the ear, even as food is tasted by the mouth?
Doth not the ear try words, even as the palate tasteth its food?
Doeth not the eare trie wordes? And the mouth taste his meate?
Haue not the eares pleasure in hearing? and the mouth in tasting the thing that it eateth?
For the ear tries words, and the palate tastes meats.
Doth not the ear try words, even as the palate tasteth its meat?
Whether the eere demeth not wordis, and the chekis of the etere demen sauour?
Does not the ear try words, Even as the palate tastes its food?
Doth not the ear try words? and the mouth taste its food?
Does not the ear test words And the mouth taste its food?
The ear tests the words it hears just as the mouth distinguishes between foods.
Does not the ear test words as the mouth tastes food?
Does not the ear test words as the palate tastes food?
Doth not, the ear, try, words? even as, the palate, tasteth for itself, food?
Doth not the ear discern words, and the palate of him that eateth, the taste?
Does not the ear try words as the palate tastes food?
Doth not the ear try words? And the palate taste food for itself?
"Does not the ear test words, As the palate tastes its food?
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Doth: Job 34:3, 1 Corinthians 10:15, Philippians 1:10, *marg. Hebrews 5:14, 1 Peter 2:3
mouth: Heb. palate, Job 6:30
Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 19:35 - can I discern Job 6:6 - taste Isaiah 11:3 - understanding
Cross-References
Abram went as far as the sacred tree of Moreh in a place called Shechem. The Canaanites were still living in the land at that time,
but the Lord appeared to Abram and promised, "I will give this land to your family forever." Abram then built an altar there for the Lord .
As soon as Abram and Sarai arrived in Egypt, the Egyptians noticed how beautiful she was.
with his beautiful wife Rebekah. He was afraid that someone might kill him to get her, and so he told everyone that Rebekah was his sister.
Late one afternoon, David got up from a nap and was walking around on the flat roof of his palace. A beautiful young woman was down below in her courtyard, bathing as her religion required. David happened to see her, and he sent one of his servants to find out who she was. The servant came back and told David, "Her name is Bathsheba. She is the daughter of Eliam, and she is the wife of Uriah the Hittite." David sent some messengers to bring her to his palace. She came to him, and he slept with her. Then she returned home.
No matter how much you know or what plans you make, you can't defeat the Lord .
you are flower blossoms from the gardens of En-Gedi.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Doth not the ear try words?.... Articulate sounds; and the mind by them judges whether what is expressed and designed by them is right or wrong, true or false, to be received or rejected; so such that have spiritual ears to hear, try the words of God and men, the wholesome words of Christ, and those of false teachers, which eat as a canker; and by their spiritual judgment can distinguish between the one and the other, discern those that differ, and approve those that are excellent, by bringing them to the standard of the word, the balance of the sanctuary, the Scriptures of truth:
and the mouth taste his meat? and judge of it, whether good or bad, or savoury or unsavoury, and so receive or reject it: thus such who have their taste changed, and relish spiritual things, can distinguish between the meat that perishes, and that which endures to everlasting life, even Christ, whose flesh is meat indeed; and those that have tasted that the Lord is gracious, and to whose taste the fruits of Christ and the doctrines of grace are sweet; these will desire the sincere milk of the word, and that strong meat in it, which belongs to discerning and experienced souls; and will feed by faith upon the pure word of the Gospel, and mix it with it, and reject all others. Job by this would signify, that the things his friends had been discoursing of, and which they thought were such deep and wonderful things, were as easy to be searched and found out, tried and judged of, as sounds by the ear, or food by the taste; and it may be also that hereby he suggests, that his doctrine, if it was impartially examined and tried by proper judges, it would appear as plain as anything tried by the ear, or tasted by the mouth. Some think that Job intends by this, that from the senses of hearing and tasting in men might be inferred the omniscience of God, his knowledge of all things, and his quick discernment of men, and their actions, since "he that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall not he see?" Psalms 94:9. Some versions read the whole, "doth not the ear try words, as the mouth tastes his meat" q? as in Job 34:3. Saadiah Gaon connects these words "as the ear tries words", c. with Job 12:12, "so with the ancient is wisdom".
q Vatablus, Drusius, Junius et Tremellius, Piscator, Mercerus, Cocceius, Schultens so Broughton.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Doth not the ear try words? - The literal meaning of this, which is evidently a proverbial expression, is plain; but about its bearing here there is more difficulty. The literal sense is, that it is the office of the ear to mark the distinction of sounds, and to convey the sense to the soul. But in regard to the exact bearing of this proverb on the case in hand, commentators have not been agreed. Probably the sense is, that there ought to be a diligent attention to the signification of words, and to the meaning of a speaker, as one carefully tastes his food; and Job, perhaps, may be disposed to complain that his friends had not given that attention which they ought to have done to the true design and signification of his remarks. Or it may mean that man is endowed with the faculty of attending to the nature and qualities of objects, and that he ought to exercise that faculty in judging of the lessons which are taught respecting God or his works.
And the mouth - Margin, as in the Hebrew ×× cheÌk - âpalate.â The word means not merely the palate, but the lower part of the mouth (Gesenius), and is especially used to designate the organ or the seat of taste; Psalms 119:103; Job 6:30.
His meat - Its food - the word âmeatâ being used in Old English to denote all kinds of food. The sense is, man is endowed with the faculty of distinguishing what is wholesome from what is unwholesome, and he should, in like manner, exercise the faculty which God has given him of distinguishing the true from the false on moral subjects. He should not suppose that all that had been said, or that could be said, must necessarily be true. He should not suppose that merely to string together proverbs, and to utter common-place suggestions, was a mark of true wisdom. He should separate the valuable from the worthless, the true from the false, and the wholesome from the injurious. Job complains that his friends had not done this. They had shown no power of discrimination or selection. They had uttered common place apothegms, and they gathered adages of former times, without any discrimination, and had urged them in their arguments against him, whether pertinent or not. It was by this kind of irrelevant and miscellaneous remark that he felt that he had been mocked by his friends, Job 12:4.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 12:11. Doth not the ear try words? — All these are common-place sayings. Ye have advanced nothing new; ye have cast no light upon the dispensations of Providence.
