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For the ear assesses[a] words
as the mouth[b] tastes food.
Let us evaluate[c] for ourselves what is right;[d]
let us come to know among ourselves what is good.
For Job says, ‘I am innocent,[e]
but God turns away my right.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 34:3 tn Or “examines; tests; tries; discerns.”
  2. Job 34:3 tn Or “palate”; the Hebrew term refers to the tongue or to the mouth in general.
  3. Job 34:4 sn Elihu means “choose after careful examination.”
  4. Job 34:4 tn The word is מִשְׁפָּט (mishpat) again, with the sense of what is right or just.
  5. Job 34:5 tn Heb “righteous,” but in this context it means to be innocent or in the right.