Job 12:11 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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

More versions

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 men; judge for yourselves what I say.

Philippians 1:10

so that you may approve what is excellent, and may be pure and blameless for the day of Christ,

Hebrews 5:14

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

1 Peter 2:3

for you have tasted the kindness of the Lord.