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30 Is there any wrong on my tongue?
    Cannot my taste discern calamity?(A)

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11 Does not the ear test words
    as the palate tastes food?(A)

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Can that which is tasteless be eaten without salt,
    or is there any flavor in the juice of mallows?[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 6.6 Meaning of Heb uncertain

14 But solid food is for the mature, for those whose faculties have been trained by practice to distinguish good from evil.(A)

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‘Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge?’
Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand,
    things too wonderful for me that I did not know.(A)
‘Hear, and I will speak;
    I will question you, and you declare to me.’(B)
I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear,
    but now my eye sees you;(C)
therefore I despise myself
    and repent in dust and ashes.”(D)

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for the ear tests words
    as the palate tastes food.(A)

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“Surely, you have spoken in my hearing,
    and I have heard the sound of your words.
You say, ‘I am clean, without transgression;
    I am pure, and there is no iniquity in me.(A)
10 Look, he finds occasions against me;
    he counts me as his enemy;(B)
11 he puts my feet in the stocks
    and watches all my paths.’(C)

12 “But in this you are not right. I will answer you:
    God is greater than any mortal.

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