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Brenton's Septuagint
Job 34:3
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Doesn’t the ear test wordsas the palate tastes food?
For the ear tries words, As the palate tastes food.
For the ear trieth words, as the mouth tasteth meat.
for the ear tests words as the palate tastes food.
The ear tests words as the tongue tastes food.
For the ear assesses words as the mouth tastes food.
"For the ear puts words to the test As the palate tastes food.
"For the ear tests words As the palate tastes food.
For the ear tries words, As the palate tastes food.
For the eare tryeth the words, as the mouth tasteth meate.
For the ear tests wordsAs the palate tastes food.
For the ear tests words as the mouth tastes food.
Think about my words, as you would taste food.
For the ear tests words, just as the palate tastes food.
For the ear trieth words, as the palate tasteth food.
Your tongue tastes the food it touches, and your ear tests the words it hears.
For the ear tries words, and the palate tastes food.
You know good food when you taste it, but not wise words when you hear them.
for the ear tests words, and the palate tastes food.
for the ear tries words as the palate tastes food.
For like as the mouth tasteth the meates, so the eare proueth & discerneth the wordes.
For the ear trieth words, As the palate tasteth food.
For words are tested by the ear, as food is tasted by the mouth.
For the ear trieth words, as the palate tasteth food.
For the eare trieth words, as the mouth tasteth meate.
For the eare discerneth wordes, and the mouth tasteth the meates.
For the ear trieth words, as the palate tasteth meat.
and the throte demeth metis bi taast.
For the ear tries words, As the palate tastes food.
For the ear trieth words, as the mouth tasteth food.
For the ear tests words As the palate tastes food.
Job said, ‘The ear tests the words it hears just as the mouth distinguishes between foods.'
For the ear tests words as the mouth tastes food.
for the ear tests words as the palate tastes food.
For, the ear, trieth words, as, the palate, tasteth in eating.
For the ear trieth words, and the mouth discerneth meats by the taste.
for the ear tests words as the palate tastes food.
For the ear doth try words, And the palate tasteth to eat.
"For the ear tests words As the palate tastes food.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
the ear: Job 6:30, Job 12:11, 1 Corinthians 2:15, Hebrews 5:14
mouth: Heb. palate, Job 31:30, Job 33:2, *marg.
Reciprocal: Job 6:6 - taste Job 6:26 - reprove Job 34:10 - understanding Isaiah 11:3 - understanding 1 Corinthians 10:15 - General Philippians 1:10 - approve things that are excellent
Cross-References
And they lifted up their voice, and wept again; and Orpha kissed her mother-in-law and returned to her people; but Ruth followed her.
And now arise, and go forth, and speak comfortably to thy servants; for I have sworn by the Lord, that unless thou wilt go forth to-day, there shall not a man remain with thee this night: and know for thyself, this thing will indeed be evil to thee beyond all the evil that has come upon thee from thy youth until now.
And Ezekias encouraged all the Levites, and those that had good understanding of the Lord: and they completely kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days, offering peace-offerings, and confessing to the Lord God of their fathers.
Speak, ye priests, to the heart of Jerusalem; comfort her, for her humiliation is accomplished, her sin is put away: for she has received of the Lord’s hand double the amount of her sins.
Therefore, behold, I will cause her to err, and will make her as desolate, and will speak comfortably to her.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
For the ear trieth words,.... Not only the musical sound of them, the goodness of the language and diction, and the grammatical construction of them, but the sense of them, and whether the matter of them is good or not; that they are sound speech, which cannot be condemned, or unsound; whether they are right or wrong, agreeably to right reason, sound doctrine, and the word of God; for there are words and words, some the words of men, others the words of God. A sanctified ear tries these; but then men must have such ears to hear, and be attentive to what they hear, and retain it; hear internally as well as externally; and which a man does when his ears are opened by the Lord, from whom are the hearing ear and seeing eye; and such try what they hear, distinguish between good and bad, approve truth and receive it, and retain and hold it fast:
as the mouth tasteth meat; words and doctrines are like meat, some good and some bad; and such that have a good taste try them, either a rational or rather a spiritual discernment: some have no spiritual taste, their taste is not changed, and therefore cannot distinguish, nor make any good judgment of things; but others have, and these discern the difference, relish truth, savour the things that be of God, taste the good word of God, and esteem it more than their necessary food; and it is sweeter to them than the honey or the honeycomb. Such Elihu judged these men to be he addressed, and therefore desired their attention to what he had to say.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
For the ear trieth words - Ascertains their meaning, and especially determines what words are worth regarding. The object of this is, to fix the attention on what he was about to say; to get the ear so that every word should make its proper impression. The word ear in this place, however, seems not to be used to denote the external organ, but the whole faculty of hearing. It is by hearing that the meaning of what is said is determined, as it is by the taste that the quality of food is discerned.
As the mouth tasteth meat - Margin, as in Hebrew “palate.” The meaning is, as the organ of taste determines the nature of the various articles of food. The same figure is used by Job in Job 12:11.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 34:3. The ear trieth words — I do not think, with Calmet, that the inward ear, or judgment, is meant simply. The Asiatics valued themselves on the nice and harmonious collection of words, both in speaking and in writing; and perhaps it will be found here that Elihu labours as much for harmonious versification as for pious and weighty sentiments. To connect sense with sound was an object of general pursuit among the Hebrew, Arabic, and Persian poets; and so fond are the latter of euphony, that they often sacrifice both sense and sentiment to it; and some of the Greek poets are not exempt from this fault.
