Parallel Verses

Lexham Expanded Bible

Does not [the] ear test words and [the] palate taste food for itself?

New American Standard Bible

“Does not the ear test words,
As the palate tastes its food?

King James Version

Doth not the ear try words? and the mouth taste his meat?

Holman Bible

Doesn’t the ear test words
as the palate tastes food?

International Standard Version

The ear scrutinizes speech just as the palate tastes food."

A Conservative Version

Does not the ear try words, even as the palate tastes its food?

American Standard Version

Doth not the ear try words, Even as the palate tasteth its food?

Amplified


“Does the ear not put words to the test,
Just as the palate tastes its food [distinguishing between the desirable and the undesirable]?

Bible in Basic English

Are not words tested by the ear, even as food is tasted by the mouth?

Darby Translation

Doth not the ear try words, as the palate tasteth food?

Julia Smith Translation

Shall not the ear try words? and the palate shall taste food to it?

King James 2000

Does not the ear test words? and the mouth taste its food?

Modern King James verseion

Does not the ear try words? And does not the mouth taste its food?

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Have not the ears pleasure in hearing, and the mouth in tasting the thing that it eateth?

NET Bible

Does not the ear test words, as the tongue tastes food?

New Heart English Bible

Doesn't the ear try words, even as the palate tastes its food?

The Emphasized Bible

Doth not, the ear, try, words? even as, the palate, tasteth for itself, food?

Webster

Doth not the ear try words? and the mouth taste its food?

World English Bible

Doesn't the ear try words, even as the palate tastes its food?

Youngs Literal Translation

Doth not the ear try words? And the palate taste food for itself?

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
Doth not the ear
אזן 
'ozen 
Usage: 187

try
בּחן 
Bachan 
Usage: 29

מלּה מלּה 
Millah 
Usage: 38

and the mouth
חך 
Chek 
mouth, roof of the mouth, taste
Usage: 18

טעם 
Ta`am 
Usage: 11

References

Hastings

Context Readings

If You Want To Learn

10 In whose hand [is] the life of all living things and {the breath of every human being}? 11 Does not [the] ear test words and [the] palate taste food for itself? 12 Wisdom [is] with [the] aged, and understanding [is in] length of days.



Cross References

Job 34:3

for [the] ear tests words, and [the] palate tastes {food}.

Job 6:30

Is there injustice on my tongue? Or can my palate not discern calamity?

1 Corinthians 10:15

I am speaking as to sensible [people]; you judge what I am saying.

Philippians 1:10

so that you may approve what is superior, in order that you may be sincere and blameless in the day of Christ,

Hebrews 5:14

But solid food is for the mature, who because of practice have trained their faculties for the distinguishing of both good and evil.

1 Peter 2:3

if you have tasted that the Lord [is] kind,

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