³⁰ Is there injustice on my tongue? Can't my taste discern mischievous things?

¹¹ Doesn't the ear try words, Even as the palate tastes its food?

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

⁸ "Surely you have spoken in my hearing, I have heard the voice of your words, saying,

⁹ 'I am clean, without disobedience. I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me:

¹⁰ Behold, he finds occasions against me, He counts me for his enemy:

¹¹ He puts my feet in the stocks, He marks all my paths.'

¹² "Behold, I will answer you. In this you are not just; For God is greater than man.

³ For the ear tries words, As the palate tastes food.

³ You asked, 'Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge?' Therefore I have uttered that which I did not understand, Things too wonderful for me, which I didn't know.

⁴ You said, 'Listen, now, and I will speak; I will question you, and you will answer me.'

⁵ I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, But now my eye sees you.

⁶ Therefore I abhor myself, And repent in dust and ashes."

¹⁴ But solid food is for those who are full grown, who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.