Job 12:11 - The Scriptures 2009

Does the ear not try words? And the mouth taste food for itself?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

Doth not the ear try words? And the mouth taste his meat?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Is it not the task of the ear to discriminate between [wise and unwise] words, just as the mouth distinguishes [between desirable and undesirable] food?

American Standard Version (1901)

Doth not the ear try words, Even as the palate tasteth its food?

Common English Bible

Doesn’t the ear test words and the palate taste food?

Catholic Public Domain Version

Does not the ear perceive words, and the palate, when eating, perceive flavor?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Doth not the ear discern words, and the palate of him that eateth, the taste?

Job 12:11 Cross References

Job 34:3

For the ear tries words as the palate tastes food.

Job 6:30

Is there unrighteousness on my tongue? Does my taste not discern what is perverse?

1 Corinthians 10:15

I speak as to wise men, judge for yourselves what I say.

Philippians 1:10

for you to examine the matters that differ, in order to be sincere, and not stumbling, until the day of Messiah,

Hebrews 5:14

But solid food is for the mature whose senses have been trained by practice to discern both good and evil.

1 Peter 2:3

if indeed you have tasted that the Master is good.