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Job 6:30
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Is there injustice on my tongueor can my palate not taste disaster?
Is there injustice on my tongue? Can't my taste discern mischievous things?
Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?
Is there any injustice on my tongue? Cannot my palate discern the cause of calamity?
What I am saying is not wicked; I can tell the difference between right and wrong.
Is there any falsehood on my lips? Can my mouth not discern evil things?
"Is there injustice or malice on my tongue? Can my palate not discern what is destructive?
Is there injustice on my tongue? Can't my taste discern mischievous things?
Is there iniquitie in my tongue? doeth not my mouth feele sorowes?
Is there unrighteousness on my tongue?Cannot my palate discern destruction?
Is there iniquity on my tongue? Can my mouth not discern malice?
I know right from wrong, and I am not telling lies.
Am I saying something wrong? Can't I recognize trouble when I taste it?
Is there wrong in my tongue? cannot my taste discern mischievous things?
I am not lying. I know right from wrong.
Is there iniquity in my tongue? Or does not my mouth speak truth?
But you think I am lying— you think I can't tell right from wrong.
Is there injustice on my tongue? Or can my palate not discern calamity?
Is there wrong in my tongue? Cannot my palate discern desirable things?
whether there be eny vnrightuousnesse in my tonge, or vayne wordes in my mouth.
Is there injustice on my tongue? Cannot my taste discern mischievous things?
Is there evil in my tongue? is not the cause of my trouble clear to me?
whether there be any vnrighteousnes in my tongue, or vayne wordes in my mouth.
Is there injustice on my tongue? Cannot my taste discern crafty devices?
Is there iniquitie in my tongue? cannot my taste discerne peruerse things?
For there is no injustice in my tongue; and does not my throat meditate understanding?
Is there injustice on my tongue? cannot my taste discern mischievous things?
And ye schulen not fynde wickidnesse in my tunge, nethir foli schal sowne in my chekis.
Is there injustice on my tongue? Can't my taste discern mischievous things?
Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?
Is there injustice on my tongue? Cannot my taste discern the unsavory?
Do you think I am lying? Don't I know the difference between right and wrong?
Is there wrong-doing on my tongue? Can I not taste trouble?
Is there any wrong on my tongue? Cannot my taste discern calamity?
Is there, in my tongue, perversity? Or can, my sense, not discern, engulfing ruin?
And you shall not find iniquity in my tongue, neither shall folly sound in my mouth.
Is there any wrong on my tongue? Cannot my taste discern calamity?
Is there in my tongue perverseness? Discerneth not my palate desirable things?
"Is there injustice on my tongue? Cannot my palate discern calamities?
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
iniquity: Job 33:8-12, Job 42:3-6
cannot: Job 6:6, Job 12:11, Job 34:3, Hebrews 5:14
taste: Heb. palate
Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 14:17 - to discern 2 Samuel 19:35 - can I discern Job 11:4 - I am clean
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Is there iniquity in my tongue?.... Meaning in his words; either those which he uttered when he cursed the day on which he was born, or in charging his friends with unkindness and falsehood; otherwise the tongue is a world of iniquity, and the best of men are apt to offend both God and men in word:
cannot my taste discern perverse things? which is to be understood not of his natural taste, which very probably through his disease might be greatly vitiated, and incapable of relishing his food as in time of health, and of distinguishing good from bad; but of his intellectual taste, or of his sense and reason, his rational and spiritual taste; he had his senses exercised to discern good and evil; he could distinguish between right and wrong that was said or done, either by himself or others; be had the use of his rational powers and faculties, and therefore not to be treated as a mad or distracted man, but as one capable of carrying on a conversation, of opening his true case, and defending himself; see Job 12:11.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Is there iniquity in my tongue? - This is a solemn appeal to their consciences, and their own deep conviction that he was sincere. Iniquity in the tongue means falsehood, deceit, hypocrisy - that which would be expressed by the tongue.
Cannot my taste discern perverse things? - Margin, palate. The word used here חך chêk means properly the palate, together with the corresponding lower part of the mouth, the inside mouth. Gesenius. Hence, it means the organ of taste, residing in the mouth. The meaning is, that Job was qualified to discern what was true or false, sincere or hypocritical, just or unjust, in the same manner as the palate is fitted to discern the qualities of objects, whether bitter or sweet, pleasant or unpleasant, wholesome or unwholesome. His object is to invite attention to what he had to state on the subject. To this proposed vindication he proceeds in the following chapter, showing the greatness of his calamity, and his right, as he supposes, to complain. Their attention was gained. They did not refuse to listen to him, and he proceeds to a fuller statement of his calamity, and of the reasons why he had allowed himself to use the language of complaint. They listened without interruption until he was done, and then replied in tones of deeper severity still.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 6:30. Is there iniquity in my tongue? — Am I not an honest man? and if in my haste my tongue had uttered falsity, would not my conscience discern it? and do you think that such a man as your friend is would defend what he knew to be wrong?
I HAVE done what I could to make this chapter plain, to preserve the connection, and show the dependence of the several parts on each other; without which many of the sayings would have been very obscure. The whole chapter is an inimitable apology for what he had uttered, and a defence of his conduct. This might have ended the controversy, had not his friends been determined to bring him in guilty. They had prejudged his cause, and assumed a certain position, from which they were determined not to be driven.
