Job 34:3 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

³ For the ear trieth words, As the palate tasteth meat.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ For the ear trieth words, As the mouth tasteth meat.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ For the ear tries words as the palate tastes food.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ For the ear trieth words, As the palate tasteth food.

Common English Bible

³ for the ear tests words like the palate tastes food.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ For the ear examines words, and the mouth discerns foods by the taste.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ For the ear trieth words, and the mouth discerneth meats by the taste.

Job 34:3 Cross References

Job 12:11

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

Job 31:30

(Yea, I suffered not my mouth to sin By asking his life with a curse;)

Job 33:2

Behold now, I have opened my mouth, My tongue hath spoken in my mouth.

Job 34:2

Hear my words, ye wise men; And give ear unto me, ye that have knowledge.

Job 34:4

Let us choose for us that which is right: Let us know among ourselves what is good.

Job 6:30

Is there injustice on my tongue? Cannot my taste discern mischievous things?

1 Corinthians 2:15

But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, and he himself is judged of no man.

Hebrews 5:14

But solid food is for fullgrown men, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.