30Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Doth not the ear try words? and the mouth taste his meat?
Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egg?
For the ear trieth words, as the mouth tasteth meat.
Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not. …
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.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 22-30)Poor Job goes on here to upbraid his friends with their unkindness and the hard usage they gave him. He here appeals to themselves concerning several things which tended both to justify him and to condemn them. If they would but think impartially, and speak as they thought, they could not but own, I. That, though he was necessitous, yet he was not craving, nor burdensome to his friends. Those that…
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