For the ear assesses words as the mouth tastes food.
Does not the ear test words, as the tongue tastes food?
I have not even permitted my mouth to sin by asking for his life through a curse –
See now, I have opened my mouth; my tongue in my mouth has spoken.
“Listen to my words, you wise men; hear me, you learned men.
Let us evaluate for ourselves what is right; let us come to know among ourselves what is good.
Is there any falsehood on my lips? Can my mouth not discern evil things?
The one who is spiritual discerns all things, yet he himself is understood by no one.
But solid food is for the mature, whose perceptions are trained by practice to discern both good and evil.
