Bible verse
For the ear tests words as the mouth tastes food.
Job 34:3 · BSB
The verses around it, from Job 34.
1 Then Elihu continued:
2 “Hear my words, O wise men; give ear to me, O men of learning.
3 For the ear tests words as the mouth tastes food.
4 Let us choose for ourselves what is right; let us learn together what is good.
5 For Job has declared, ‘I am righteous, yet God has deprived me of justice.
6 Would I lie about my case? My wound is incurable, though I am without transgression.’
7 What man is like Job, who drinks up derision like water?
KJV
For the ear trieth words, as the mouth tasteth meat.
ASV
For the ear trieth words, As the palate tasteth food.
ERV
For the ear trieth words, as the palate tasteth meat.
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