Job 12:11

12:11 Does not the ear test words,

as ¹  the tongue ²  tastes food? ³ 

Job 34:3

34:3 For the ear assesses ⁴  words

as the mouth ⁵  tastes food.

Philippians 1:9-10

1:9 And I pray this, that your love may abound even more and more in knowledge and every kind of insight 1:10 so that you can decide what is best, and thus be sincere and blameless for the day of Christ,

Hebrews 5:14

5:14 But solid food is for the mature, whose perceptions are trained by practice to discern both good and evil.

¹ tn The ו (vav) introduces the comparison here (see 5:7; 11:12); see GKC 499 §161.a.

² tn Heb “the palate.”

³ tn The final preposition with its suffix is to be understood as a pleonastic dativus ethicus and not translated (see GKC 439 §135.i).

⁴ tn Or “examines; tests; tries; discerns.”

⁵ tn Or “palate”; the Hebrew term refers to the tongue or to the mouth in general.