Job 12:11
Doesn’t the ear try words, even as the palate tastes its food?
World English Bible Classic
In The King James Version
Doth not the ear try words? and the mouth taste his meat?
In Context
10in whose hand is the life of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind?
12With aged men is wisdom, in length of days understanding.
Cross References
Job 34:3For the ear tries words, as the palate tastes food.
Philippians 1:10so that you may approve the things that are excellent, that you may be sincere and without offense to the day of Christ,
1 Peter 2:3if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is gracious.
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 →