🌪️WEB · Job 12:11
What does Job 12:11 mean?
"Doesn’t the ear try words, even as the palate tastes its food?"
— Job 12:11 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach you. The fish of the sea shall declare to you.
Who doesn’t know that in all these, Yahweh’s hand has done this,
in whose hand is the life of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind?
Doesn’t the ear try words, even as the palate tastes its food?
With aged men is wisdom, in length of days understanding.
“With God is wisdom and might. He has counsel and understanding.
Behold, he breaks down, and it can’t be built again. He imprisons a man, and there can be no release.
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