Parallel Verses
The Emphasized Bible
For, the ear, trieth words, as, the palate, tasteth in eating.
New American Standard Bible
As the palate tastes food.
King James Version
For the ear trieth words, as the mouth tasteth meat.
Holman Bible
as the palate tastes food?
International Standard Version
Since the ear tests words like a palate tastes food,
A Conservative Version
For the ear tries words as the palate tastes food.
American Standard Version
For the ear trieth words, As the palate tasteth food.
Amplified
“For the ear puts words to the test
As the palate tastes food.
Bible in Basic English
For words are tested by the ear, as food is tasted by the mouth.
Darby Translation
For the ear trieth words, as the palate tasteth food.
Julia Smith Translation
For the ear will try words, and the palate will taste of food
King James 2000
For the ear tests words, as the mouth tastes food.
Lexham Expanded Bible
for [the] ear tests words, and [the] palate tastes {food}.
Modern King James verseion
For the ear tries words, as the palate tastes food.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For like as the mouth tasteth the meats, so the ear proveth and discerneth the words.
NET Bible
For the ear assesses words as the mouth tastes food.
New Heart English Bible
For the ear tries words, as the palate tastes food.
Webster
For the ear trieth words, as the mouth tasteth food.
World English Bible
For the ear tries words, as the palate tastes food.
Youngs Literal Translation
For the ear doth try words, And the palate tasteth to eat.
Interlinear
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 34:3
Verse Info
Context Readings
Elihu Asserts God's Justice
2 Hear, ye wise men, my words, and, ye who know, give ear unto me; 3 For, the ear, trieth words, as, the palate, tasteth in eating. 4 What is right, let us choose for ourselves, Let us know, among ourselves, what is good;
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Cross References
Job 12:11
Doth not, the ear, try, words? even as, the palate, tasteth for itself, food?
1 Corinthians 2:15
But, the man of the spirit, on the one hand, examineth all things, but, on the other, he himself, by no one, is examined.
Job 6:30
Is there, in my tongue, perversity? Or can, my sense, not discern, engulfing ruin?
Job 31:30
Neither did I suffer my palate to sin, by asking, with a curse, for his life:
Job 33:2
Lo! I pray thee, I have opened my mouth, My tongue, with my palate, hath spoken,
Hebrews 5:14
But, to such as are mature, pertaineth, the strong food, to them who, by reason of habit, have their organs of perception well trained for discriminating both good and evil.