Job 34:3
For the ear tests words as the mouth tastes food.
BSB
ASV
For the ear trieth words, As the palate tasteth food.
KJV
For the ear trieth words, as the mouth tasteth meat.
For the ear trieth words,.... Not only the musical sound of them, the goodness of the language and diction, and the grammatical construction of them, but the sense of them, and whether the matter of them is good or not; that they are sound speech, which cannot be condemned, or unsound; whether they are right or wrong, agreeably to right reason, sound doctrine, and the word of God; for there are words and words, some the words of men, others the words of God.
For the ear trieth words - Ascertains their meaning, and especially determines what words are worth regarding. The object of this is, to fix the attention on what he was about to say; to get the ear so that every word should make its proper impression. The word ear in this place, however, seems not to be used to denote the external organ, but the whole faculty of hearing. It is by hearing that the meaning of what is said is determined, as it is by the taste that the quality of food is discerned.
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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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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but test all things. Hold fast to what is good.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
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.
And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight,
Among the mature, however, we speak a message of wisdom—but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing.
By the time He knows enough to reject evil and choose good, He will be eating curds and honey.
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1 Corinthians 2:15The spiritual man judges all things, but he himself is not subject to anyone’s judgment.
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But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained their senses to distinguish good from evil.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Evil men do not understand justice, but those who seek the LORD comprehend fully.
Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God. For many false prophets have gone out into the world.