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Job 34:3

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

for the ear tests words as the palate tastes food.

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

(I have not let my mouth sin by asking for his life with a curse);

Behold, 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?

The spiritual man judges all things, but is himself to be judged by no one.

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