³⁰ Is there injustice on my tongue? Cannot my taste discern mischievous things?

¹¹ Doth not the ear try words, Even as the palate tasteth its food?

⁶ Can that which hath no savor be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?

⁸ Surely thou hast spoken in my hearing, And I have heard the voice of `thy' words, `saying',

⁹ I am clean, without transgression; I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me:

¹⁰ Behold, he findeth occasions against me, He counteth me for his enemy:

¹¹ He putteth my feet in the stocks, He marketh all my paths.

¹² Behold, I will answer thee, in this thou art not just; For God is greater than man.

³ For the ear trieth words, As the palate tasteth food.

³ Who is this that hideth counsel without knowledge? Therefore have I uttered that which I understood not, Things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.

⁴ Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak; I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.

⁵ I had heard of thee by the hearing of the ear; But now mine eye seeth thee:

⁶ Wherefore I abhor `myself', And repent in dust and ashes.

¹⁴ But solid food is for fullgrown men, `even' those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.