Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Job 12:11
Verse Job 12:11. Doth not the ear try words?] All these are common-place sayings. Ye have advanced nothing new; ye have cast no light upon the dispensations of Providence.
Verse Job 12:11. Doth not the ear try words?] All these are common-place sayings. Ye have advanced nothing new; ye have cast no light upon the dispensations of Providence.
DOTH NOT THE EAR TRY WORDS? - The literal meaning of this, which is evidently a proverbial expression, is plain; but about its bearing here there is more difficulty. The literal sense is, that it is t...
CHAPTER S 12-14 JOB'S ANSWER TO ZOPHAR _ 1. His sarcasm (Job 12:1)_ 2. He describes God's power (Job 12:7) 3. He denounces his friends (Job 13:1) 4. He appeals to God ...
Eliphaz had appealed to revelation, Bildad to the wisdom of the ancients, Zophar assumes that he himself is the oracle of God's wisdom. Job answers this assumption. Firstly Zophar is not the only wise...
Job 12:7-10 referred to what one could _see_of God's power and wisdom in the world, these verses refer to what one might learn of them by _hearing_ancient men discourse regarding them. In ch. Job 13:1...
_and the mouth taste his meat_ Rather, AS THE MOUTH (lit. palate) TASTETH HIS MEAT. Does not the understanding ear discern and appropriate sound knowledge, as the palate discerns and relishes wholesom...
DOTH NOT THE EAR TRY WORDS? &C.— _Doth not the ear try words, as the palate tasteth food?_ Job, being about to speak of the supreme and absolute dominion of God over his creatures, begins with two pro...
2. God is responsible for all that is. (Job 12:7-12) TEXT 12:7-12 7 BUT ASK NOW THE BEASTS, AND THEY SHALL TEACH THEE; And the birds of the heavens, and they shall tell THEE: 8 Or speak to the ear...
_DOTH NOT THE EAR TRY WORDS? AND THE MOUTH TASTE HIS MEAT?_ Doth not the ear try words? and the mouth taste his meat? As the mouth by tasting meats selects what pleases it, so the ear tries the words...
JOB'S THIRD SPEECH (JOB 12-14) The friends have said God is wise and mighty. Job replies, 'I know that as well as you. You infer that He is also righteous, but experience shows that His power and wisd...
AND THE MOUTH, etc.] RV 'Even as the palate tasteth its meat.'...
JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 12 JOB REPLIES TO ZOPHAR’S...
The people in Job’s time respected a man’s old age. They thought that an old person was wiser than a young person (see Job 32:6-7)....
DOTH NOT THE EAR TRY WORDS? — Bildad had appealed to the wisdom of authority and tradition, but Job reminds him that it is given to the wise man not to accept everything he has received, but to discri...
הֲ לֹא ־אֹ֭זֶן מִלִּ֣ין תִּבְחָ֑ן וְ֝ חֵ֗ךְ
XII. BEYOND FACT AND FEAR TO GOD Job 12:1; Job 13:1; Job 14:1 Job SPEAKS ZOPHAR excites in Job's mind great irritation, which must not be set down altogether to the fact that he is the third to spe...
“GOD'S PATHS IN DEEP WATERS” Job 12:1 Job sets himself to disprove Zophar's contention that wickedness invariably causes insecurity in men's dwellings; and in doing so he bitterly complains that his...
Job's last reply in this first cycle is to the whole argument, as well as to Zophar's application of it. From beginning to end, it thrills with sarcasm, while it maintains its denial of personal guilt...
Doth not the ear (f) try words? and the mouth taste his meat? (f) He exhorts them to be wise in judging, and as well to know the right use of their God-given ears, as well as their mouths....
_Taste. For this no master is requisite; so I stood in no need of your information, (Calmet) of such trite remarks. (Haydock)_...
(11) Doth not the ear try words? and the mouth taste his meat? (12) В¶ With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding. (13) With him is wisdom and strength, he hath counsel and unders...
_A DISCERNING EAR_ ‘Doth not the ear try words? and the mouth taste his meat?’ Job 12:11 I. THERE IS NO APPEAL FROM THE VERDICT OF OUR PALATE.—We know in a moment whether a substance is sweet or bi...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31. As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks. They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure and...
DOTH NOT THE EAR TRY WORDS?.... Articulate sounds; and the mind by them judges whether what is expressed and designed by them is right or wrong, true or false, to be received or rejected; so such that...
Doth not the ear try words? and the mouth taste his meat? Ver. 11. _Doth not the ear try words? &c._] The mind may as easily conceive of these truths as the ear judgeth certainly of the variety of so...
_Doth not the ear try words?_ &c. Doth not the mind distinguish truth from falsehood, and wisdom from folly, as exactly as the palate distinguishes a sweet from a bitter taste? These words may either...
Doth not the ear try words, prove sayings or proverbs, testing their inner worth, AND THE MOUTH TASTE HIS MEAT? Even as the palate discriminates between the foods which are taken into the mouth, so th...
God's Government of the World...
JOB EMPHASISES GOD'S GREATNESS AND WISDOM (vv.1-25) Job's reply to Zophar was understandably sarcastic, "No doubt you are the people, and wisdom will die with you!" (v.2). Zophar had implied that h...
MOUTH: _ Heb._ palate...
Job could see through their faulty arguments just as his tongue tasted food. __...
6-11 Job appeals to facts. The most audacious robbers, oppressors, and impious wretches, often prosper. Yet this is not by fortune or chance; the Lord orders these things. Worldly prosperity is of sma...
As the mouth tasteth and thereby judgeth of meats, and as it liketh or disliketh, so it receiveth or rejecteth, what is put into it; so it is the office of the ear, or rather of the mind, which hears...
Job 12:11 ear H241 test H974 (H8799) words H4405 mouth H2441 taste H2938 (H8799) food H400 Doth -...
CONTENTS: Job answers his three friends, extolling God's wisdom. CHARACTERS: God, Job, three friends. CONCLUSION: There is a wise providence which guides and governs all things by rules with which t...
Job 12:6. _The tabernacles of robbers prosper._ Or as it might be rendered, a placid tranquility gladdens the tabernacles of robbers; referring to the Arabs, who plunder the merchants. This and the fo...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 12:1 In the longest response of the dialogues with his three friends, Job shows his growing frustration with their claims of wisdom (even though he agrees with them about God’s supreme...
_JOB’S REPLY TO ZOPHAR_ I. Defends himself against the charge of ignorance implied in Zophar’s speech (Job 12:2). His defence is:— 1. _Ironical_ (Job 12:2). “No doubt but ye are the people; and wisd...
EXPOSITION The discourse of Job, here begun, continues through three chapters (Job 12:1; Job 13:1; Job 14:1.). It is thought to form the conclusion of the first day's colloquy. In it Job for the first...
So Job answered him and said, No doubt but you are the people, and wisdom is going to die with you (Job 12:1-2). He's about had it with these guys who think they know all the answers, and they're not...
1 Corinthians 10:15; 1 Peter 2:3; Hebrews 5:14; Job 34:3; Job 6:30;...
Doth not — This may be a preface to his following discourse; whereby he invites them to hear and judge of his words candidly and impartially; that they and he too might agree in disallowing what shoul...