Teks -- Job 6:30 (NET)

6:30 Is there any falsehood on my lips? Can my mouth not discern evil things?

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

Wesley: Job 6:30 - Is there

Consider if there be any untruth or iniquity in what I have already said, or shall farther speak.

Wesley: Job 6:30 - Taste

My judgment, which judgeth of words and actions, as the palate doth of meats.

JFB: Job 6:30

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].

Clarke: Job 6:30 - Is there iniquity in my tongue?

Is there iniquity in my tongue? - Am I not an honest man? and if in my haste my tongue had uttered falsity, would not my conscience discern it? and do you think that such a man as your friend is would defend what he knew to be wrong

I Have done what I could to make this chapter plain, to preserve the connection, and show the dependence of the several parts on each other; without which many of the sayings would have been very obscure. The whole chapter is an inimitable apology for what he had uttered, and a defense of his conduct. This might have ended the controversy, had not his friends been determined to bring him in guilty. They had prejudged his cause, and assumed a certain position, from which they were determined not to be driven.

TSK: Job 6:30 - iniquity // cannot // taste

iniquity : Job 33:8-12, Job 42:3-6

cannot : Job 6:6, Job 12:11, Job 34:3; Heb 5:14

taste : Heb. palate

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: Job 6:30 - My taste // Perverse things

Consider again, and more thoroughly examine, if there be any untruth or iniquity in what I have already said, or shall further speak to you.

My taste i.e. my judgment, which discerns and judgeth of words and actions as the taste or palate doth of meats.

Perverse things i.e. false opinions or sinful expressions. I am not so bereft of common understanding, as not to be able to distinguish between good and evil; and therefore if I have uttered, or should utter, any perverse words, I should apprehend them to be so as well as you do.

Haydock: Job 6:30 - Mouth

Mouth. He engages their attention. (Calmet) ---

Hebrew, "Cannot my taste discern perverse things," (Protestants; Haydock) or "the evil" which I endure? My complaints are not surely unfounded. (Calmet)

Gill: Job 6:30 - Is there iniquity in my tongue // cannot my taste discern perverse things

Is there iniquity in my tongue?.... Meaning in his words; either those which he uttered when he cursed the day on which he was born, or in charging his friends with unkindness and falsehood; otherwise the tongue is a world of iniquity, and the best of men are apt to offend both God and men in word:

cannot my taste discern perverse things? which is to be understood not of his natural taste, which very probably through his disease might be greatly vitiated, and incapable of relishing his food as in time of health, and of distinguishing good from bad; but of his intellectual taste, or of his sense and reason, his rational and spiritual taste; he had his senses exercised to discern good and evil; he could distinguish between right and wrong that was said or done, either by himself or others; be had the use of his rational powers and faculties, and therefore not to be treated as a mad or distracted man, but as one capable of carrying on a conversation, of opening his true case, and defending himself; see Job 12:11.