34:3 For the ear assesses 1 words
as the mouth 2 tastes food.
38:2 “Who is this 3 who darkens counsel 4
with words without knowledge?
1 tn Or “examines; tests; tries; discerns.”
2 tn Or “palate”; the Hebrew term refers to the tongue or to the mouth in general.
3 tn The demonstrative pronoun is used here to emphasize the interrogative pronoun (see GKC 442 §136.c).
4 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.”