Job 34:3

34:3 For the ear assesses words

as the mouth tastes food.

Job 38:2

38:2 “Who is this who darkens counsel

with words without knowledge?


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

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

tn The demonstrative pronoun is used here to emphasize the interrogative pronoun (see GKC 442 §136.c).

sn The referent of “counsel” here is not the debate between Job and the friends, but the purposes of God (see Ps 33:10; Prov 19:21; Isa 19:17). Dhorme translates it “Providence.”