Job 12:11

12:11 Does not the ear test words,

as ¹  the tongue ²  tastes food? ³ 

Job 29:11

Job’s Benevolence

29:11 “As soon as the ear heard these things, ⁴  it blessed me, ⁵ 

and when the eye saw them, it bore witness to me,

Job 34:3

34:3 For the ear assesses ⁶  words

as the mouth ⁷  tastes food.

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

[12:11]  ² tn Heb “the palate.”

[12:11]  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).

[29:11]  ⁴ tn The words “these things” and “them” in the next colon are not in the Hebrew text, but have been supplied in the translation for clarity.

[29:11]  ⁵ tn The main clause is introduced by the preterite with the vav (ו) consecutive (see GKC 327 §111.h); the clause before it is therefore temporal and circumstantial to the main clause.

[34:3]  ⁷ tn Or “examines; tests; tries; discerns.”

[34:3]  ⁸ tn Or “palate”; the Hebrew term refers to the tongue or to the mouth in general.