Job 12:11 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Does not the ear test words as the palate tastes food?

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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 tests words as the palate tastes food.

Job 6:30

Is there any wrong on my tongue? Cannot my taste discern calamity?

1 Corinthians 10:15

I speak as to sensible people; judge for yourselves what I say.

Philippians 1:10

to help you to determine what really matters, so that in the day of Christ you may be pure and blameless,

Hebrews 5:14

But solid food is for the mature, for those whose faculties have been trained by practice to distinguish good from evil.

1 Peter 2:3

if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good.