Job 12:11
Does not the ear try words, even as the palate tastes its food?
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Doth not the ear try words? and the mouth taste his meat?
In Context
10in whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind?
12With aged men is wisdom, and in length of days understanding.
Cross References
Job 34:3For the ear tries words as the palate tastes food.
Philippians 1:10for you to examine the things that are significant. So that ye may be tested by sunlight and not stumbling toward the day of Christ,
1 Peter 2:3if indeed ye have tasted that the Lord is excellent.
Matthew Henry on Job 12:7-12
6 The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth abundantly. 7 But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee: 8 Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee. 9 Who knoweth not in all these that the hand of the Lord hath wrought this? 10 In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind. 11 Doth not the ear try words? and… Read the whole commentary →