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Job 12:11 — King James Version← Study notes

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


Job 12:11Hebrew Interlinear

Hebrew · Job 12:118 words
HebrewMeaning
הֲ/לֹאhălōʾ
¿ notparticleH3808
before · or else · except · ig ···
אֹ֭זֶןʾōzen
an earnounH241
advertise · displease · ear · hearing ···
מִלִּ֣יןmiliyn
wordsnounH4405
answer · matter · any thing to say · to speak ···
תִּבְחָ֑ןtibəḥān
does it testverbH974
prove · tempt · try
וְ֝/חֵ֗ךְwəḥēkə
and a palateconjH2441
taste
אֹ֣כֶלʾōkel
foodnounH400
food · meal · meat · prey ···
יִטְעַםyiṭəʿam
it tastesverbH2938
but · taste
לֽ/וֹlwō
pron
Words are listed top to bottom following the original right-to-left reading order. אֵת (ʾēṯ) is a direct object marker with no English equivalent, shown faded.

Church Fathers on Job 12:11

The ear trieth words, and the mouth of the eater savour. 8. There is scarce a person that is ignorant that the five senses of our body, viz. of seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling, and touching, in all their operations of perceiving and discriminating derive the power of perception and discrimination from the brain. And whereas there is but one judge that presides within, viz. the percipient faculty of the brain, yet by their proper passages he keeps five senses distinct, God…

Gregory the Great · 6th century · Morals on Job, Book 11 §9
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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