Job 12:11
Does not the ear test words as the tongue tastes its food?
BSB
ASV
Doth not the ear try words, Even as the palate tasteth its food?
KJV
Doth not the ear try words? and the mouth taste his meat?
Each chooses according to his taste. The connection with Job 12:12 is in reference to Bildad's appeal to the "ancients" (Job 8:8). You are right in appealing to them, since "with them was wisdom," &c.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Philippians 1:10so that you may be able to test and prove what is best and may be pure and blameless for the day of Christ,
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Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of…
so that He may establish your hearts in blamelessness and holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all His saints. Amen.
Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely, and may your entire spirit, soul, and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
if you know His will and approve of what is superior because you are instructed by the law;
Test and prove what pleases the Lord.
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Hebrews 5:14But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained their senses to distinguish good from evil.
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The natural man does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God. For they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.
but test all things. Hold fast to what is good.
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1 Peter 2:3now that you have tasted that the Lord is good.
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Taste and see that the LORD is good; blessed is the man who takes refuge in Him!