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

¹¹ Does not the ear try words as the palate tastes food?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹¹ Doth not the ear try words? And the mouth taste his meat?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹¹ 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)

¹¹ Doth not the ear try words, Even as the palate tasteth its food?

Common English Bible

¹¹ Doesn’t the ear test words and the palate taste food?

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹¹ Does not the ear perceive words, and the palate, when eating, perceive flavor?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹¹ 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.