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Job 34:3

Job 34:3 is verse 3 of Job chapter 34, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

For the ear tests words as the mouth tastes food.

For the ear trieth words, as the mouth tasteth meat.

For the ear tries words, as the palate tastes food.

Job 34:1–5 · Berean Standard Bible

1 Then Elihu continued:

2 “Hear my words, O wise men; give ear to me, O men of learning.

3 For the ear tests words as the mouth tastes food.

4 Let us choose for ourselves what is right; let us learn together what is good.

5 For Job has declared, ‘I am righteous, yet God has deprived me of justice.

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