Job 12:11 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹¹Doth not the ear try words? and the mouth taste his meat?

Job 12:11 —

Old words in this verse

meat: — food of any kind.

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 34:3
For the ear trieth words, as the mouth tasteth meat.
Hebrews 5:14
But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.
Philippians 1:10
That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ;
1 Peter 2:3
If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious.
Job 6:30
Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?

Topics

Atheism Attributes of God Design Devotion God Graces Guidance Ignorance

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 6-11)

Job’s friends all of them went upon this principle, that wicked people cannot prosper long in this world, but some remarkable judgment or other will suddenly light on them: Zophar had concluded with it, that the eyes of the wicked shall fail, Job 11:20. This principle Job here opposes, and maintains that God, in disposing men’s outward affairs, acts as a sovereign, reserving the exact distribution…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 11)

11. As the mouth by tasting meats selects what pleases it, so the ear tries the words of others and retains what is convincing. Each chooses according to his taste. The connection with Job 12:12 is in reference to Bildad’s appeal to the “ancients” (Job 8:8). You are right in appealing to them, since “with them was wisdom,” &c. But you select such proverbs of theirs as suit your views; so I may bor…