the Week of Proper 24 / Ordinary 29
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Job 34:3
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Job said, ‘The ear tests the words it hears just as the mouth distinguishes between foods.'
For the ear trieth words, as the palate tasteth meat.
For the ear tries words, As the palate tastes food.
The ear tests words as the tongue tastes food.
For the ear assesses words as the mouth tastes food.
For the ear trieth words, as the mouth tasteth food.
For the ear tries words, As the palate tastes food.
"For the ear puts words to the test As the palate tastes food.
for the ear tests words as the palate tastes food.
and the throte demeth metis bi taast.
For the ear tests words as the mouth tastes food.
Think about my words, as you would taste food.
For the ear trieth words, As the palate tasteth food.
For words are tested by the ear, as food is tasted by the mouth.
For the ear tests words, just as the palate tastes food.
For the ear trieth words, as the palate tasteth food.
Your tongue tastes the food it touches, and your ear tests the words it hears.
For the ear trieth words, as the palate tasteth food.
For the eare trieth words, as the mouth tasteth meate.
For the ear tests words as the mouth tastes food.
for the ear tests words as the palate tastes food.
For the eare tryeth the words, as the mouth tasteth meate.
For the ear tries words, and the palate tastes food.
You know good food when you taste it, but not wise words when you hear them.
For, the ear, trieth words, as, the palate, tasteth in eating.
For the ear trieth words, and the mouth discerneth meats by the taste.
for the ear tests words as the palate tastes food.
For the eare discerneth wordes, and the mouth tasteth the meates.
For the ear tries words, and the mouth tastes meat.
Doesn’t the ear test wordsas the palate tastes food?
For the ear tries words, As the palate tastes food.
for the ear tests words, and the palate tastes food.
for the ear tries words as the palate tastes food.
For the ear doth try words, And the palate tasteth to eat.
For like as the mouth tasteth the meates, so the eare proueth & discerneth the wordes.
"For the ear tests words As the palate tastes food.
For the ear tests words As the palate tastes food.
"For the ear tests words As the palate tastes food.
For the ear tests wordsAs the palate tastes food.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
the ear: Job 6:30, Job 12:11, 1 Corinthians 2:15, Hebrews 5:14
mouth: Heb. palate, Job 31:30, Job 33:2, *marg.
Reciprocal: Job 6:6 - taste Job 6:26 - reprove Job 34:10 - understanding Isaiah 11:3 - understanding 1 Corinthians 10:15 - General Philippians 1:10 - approve things that are excellent
Cross-References
And they lifted up their voice, and wept again: and Orpah kissed her mother in law; but Ruth clave unto her.
And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.
Now therefore arise, go forth, and speak comfortably unto thy servants: for I swear by the Lord , if thou go not forth, there will not tarry one with thee this night: and that will be worse unto thee than all the evil that befell thee from thy youth until now.
And Hezekiah spake comfortably unto all the Levites that taught the good knowledge of the Lord : and they did eat throughout the feast seven days, offering peace offerings, and making confession to the Lord God of their fathers.
Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the Lord 's hand double for all her sins.
Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
For the ear trieth words,.... Not only the musical sound of them, the goodness of the language and diction, and the grammatical construction of them, but the sense of them, and whether the matter of them is good or not; that they are sound speech, which cannot be condemned, or unsound; whether they are right or wrong, agreeably to right reason, sound doctrine, and the word of God; for there are words and words, some the words of men, others the words of God. A sanctified ear tries these; but then men must have such ears to hear, and be attentive to what they hear, and retain it; hear internally as well as externally; and which a man does when his ears are opened by the Lord, from whom are the hearing ear and seeing eye; and such try what they hear, distinguish between good and bad, approve truth and receive it, and retain and hold it fast:
as the mouth tasteth meat; words and doctrines are like meat, some good and some bad; and such that have a good taste try them, either a rational or rather a spiritual discernment: some have no spiritual taste, their taste is not changed, and therefore cannot distinguish, nor make any good judgment of things; but others have, and these discern the difference, relish truth, savour the things that be of God, taste the good word of God, and esteem it more than their necessary food; and it is sweeter to them than the honey or the honeycomb. Such Elihu judged these men to be he addressed, and therefore desired their attention to what he had to say.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
For the ear trieth words - Ascertains their meaning, and especially determines what words are worth regarding. The object of this is, to fix the attention on what he was about to say; to get the ear so that every word should make its proper impression. The word ear in this place, however, seems not to be used to denote the external organ, but the whole faculty of hearing. It is by hearing that the meaning of what is said is determined, as it is by the taste that the quality of food is discerned.
As the mouth tasteth meat - Margin, as in Hebrew âpalate.â The meaning is, as the organ of taste determines the nature of the various articles of food. The same figure is used by Job in Job 12:11.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 34:3. The ear trieth words — I do not think, with Calmet, that the inward ear, or judgment, is meant simply. The Asiatics valued themselves on the nice and harmonious collection of words, both in speaking and in writing; and perhaps it will be found here that Elihu labours as much for harmonious versification as for pious and weighty sentiments. To connect sense with sound was an object of general pursuit among the Hebrew, Arabic, and Persian poets; and so fond are the latter of euphony, that they often sacrifice both sense and sentiment to it; and some of the Greek poets are not exempt from this fault.
