Bible Strands
Job 6:30
Is there iniquity on my tongue? Can my mouth not discern malice?
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Job addresses his three comforters during his prolonged suffering, responding immediately to their charge that his words betray hidden guilt.
The words — עַוְלָה (ʿavlah, injustice) and הַוּוֹת (hāvōt, destructions) frame Job’s rhetorical inquiry into the moral quality of his own speech.
The thread — The biblical pattern of sensory testing for truth runs through Job 12:11, Job 6:6, and Job 34:3.
Why it lands — The text states that Job’s tongue bears no injustice and his palate correctly detects wickedness, then asks the reader to accept Job’s claimed moral clarity against his friends’ accusations.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?
Cross-references
- Job 12:11 Does not the ear test words as the tongue tastes its food?
- Job 6:6 Is tasteless food eaten without salt, or is there flavor in the white of an egg?
- Job 34:3 For the ear tests words as the mouth tastes food.
- Job 33:8 Surely you have spoken in my hearing, and I have heard these very words:
- Job 42:3 You asked, ‘Who is this who conceals My counsel without knowledge?’ Surely I spoke of things I did not understand, things too wonderful for me to know.
- Hebrews 5:14 But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained their senses to distinguish good from evil.