Ayub 12:11

12:11 Does not the ear test words,

as ¹  the tongue ²  tastes food? ³ 

Ayub 34:3

34:3 For the ear assesses ⁴  words

as the mouth ⁵  tastes food.

Filipi 1:9-10

1:9 And I pray this, that your love may abound even more and more in knowledge and every kind of insight 1:10 so that you can decide what is best, and thus be sincere and blameless for the day of Christ,

Ibrani 5:14

5:14 But solid food is for the mature, whose perceptions are trained by practice to discern both good and evil.

¹ tn The ו (vav) introduces the comparison here (see 5:7; 11:12); see GKC 499 §161.a.

² tn Heb “the palate.”

³ tn The final preposition with its suffix is to be understood as a pleonastic dativus ethicus and not translated (see GKC 439 §135.i).

sn In the rest of the chapter Job turns his attention away from creation to the wisdom of ancient men. In Job 13:1 when Job looks back to this part, he refers to both the eye and the ear. In vv. 13-25 Job refers to many catastrophes which he could not have seen, but must have heard about.

⁴ tn Or “examines; tests; tries; discerns.”

⁵ tn Or “palate”; the Hebrew term refers to the tongue or to the mouth in general.