Job 34:3 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³For the ear trieth words, as the mouth tasteth meat.

Job 34:3 —

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 12:11
Doth not the ear try words? and the mouth taste his meat?
1 Corinthians 2:15
But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.
Job 33:2
Behold, now I have opened my mouth, my tongue hath spoken in my mouth.
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.
Job 6:30
Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?

Topics

Caution Consistency Counsel Expediency Opinion, Public Prudence

Commentary

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

(vv. 1-9)

Here, I. Elihu humbly addresses himself to the auditors, and endeavours, like an orator, to gain their good-will and their favourable attention. 1. He calls them wise men, and men that had knowledge, Job 34:2. It is comfortable dealing with such as understand sense. I speak as to wise men, who can judge what I say, 1 Cor. 10:15. Elihu differed in opinion from them, and yet he calls them wise and k…

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

(vv. 3)

3. palate--(See on Job 12:11; Job 33:2).