Job 6:30
Is there iniquity on my tongue? Can my mouth not discern malice?
BSB
ASV
Is there injustice on my tongue? Cannot my taste discern mischievous things?
KJV
Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?
And ye shall not find iniquity in my tongue, nor shall foolishness sound through my jaws. As if it were expressed in plain words, 'The more exactly ye weigh your own words, the more truly ye estimate those of others, and when what ye say begins to be right, ye will recognise what ye hear to be just. For my tongue never sounds of folly to you, unless it be what comes from your own inward thoughts.'
Will you say that my guilt lies in the organ of speech, and will you call it to account? or, Is it that my taste (palate) or discernment is not capable to form a judgment of perverse things? Is it thus you will explain the fact of my having no consciousness of guilt? [UMBREIT].
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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.
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.
I ask that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you may know the hope of His calling, the riches of His glorious inheritance in the saints,
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Job 12:11Does not the ear test words as the tongue tastes its food?
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For the ear tests words as the mouth tastes food.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
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.