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Job 34:3

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

for the ear tests words as the palate tastes food.

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

I have not let my mouth sin by asking for their lives with a curse—

See, I open my mouth; the tongue in my mouth speaks.

“Hear my words, you wise men, and give ear to me, you who know,

Let us choose what is right; let us determine among ourselves what is good.

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

Those who are spiritual discern all things, and they are themselves subject to no one else’s scrutiny.

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