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Job 12:11
Doesn’t the ear try words, even as the palate tastes its food?
Job 12:11 · World English Bible
Job 12:11 in other translations
Doth not the ear try words? and the mouth taste his meat?
Does not the ear test words as the tongue tastes its food?
Doesn't the ear try words, even as the palate tastes its food?
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In context
8 Or speak to the earth, and it will teach you. The fish of the sea will declare to you.
9 Who doesn’t know that in all these, the LORD’s hand has done this,
10 in whose hand is the life of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind?
11 Doesn’t the ear try words, even as the palate tastes its food?
12 With aged men is wisdom, in length of days understanding.
13 “With God is wisdom and might. He has counsel and understanding.
14 Behold, he breaks down, and it can’t be built again. He imprisons a man, and there can be no release.
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