Job 6:30 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³⁰Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?

Job 6:30 —

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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?
Job 6:6
Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egg?
Job 34:3
For the ear trieth words, as the mouth tasteth meat.
Job 42:3-6
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. …
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.

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities

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…

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

(vv. 30)

30. Will you say that my guilt lies in the organ of speech, and will you call it to account? or, Is it that my taste (palate) or discernment is not capable to form a judgment of perverse things? Is it thus you will explain the fact of my having no consciousness of guilt? [Umbreit].