Parallel Verses
Amplified
“Is there injustice or malice on my tongue?
Can my palate not discern what is destructive?
New American Standard Bible
Cannot
King James Version
Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?
Holman Bible
or can my palate not taste disaster?
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International Standard Version
Have I said anything that's unjust? I can discern evil, can't I?"
A Conservative Version
Is there injustice on my tongue? Cannot my taste discern mischievous things?
American Standard Version
Is there injustice on my tongue? Cannot my taste discern mischievous things?
Bible in Basic English
Is there evil in my tongue? is not the cause of my trouble clear to me?
Darby Translation
Is there wrong in my tongue? cannot my taste discern mischievous things?
Julia Smith Translation
Is there iniquity in my tongue? if my palate shall not understand calamities.
King James 2000
Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?
Lexham Expanded Bible
Is there injustice on my tongue? Or can my palate not discern calamity?
Modern King James verseion
Is there wrong in my tongue? Cannot my taste discern desirable things?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
whether there be any unrighteousness in my tongue, or vain words in my mouth.
NET Bible
Is there any falsehood on my lips? Can my mouth not discern evil things?
New Heart English Bible
Is there injustice on my tongue? Can't my taste discern mischievous things?
The Emphasized Bible
Is there, in my tongue, perversity? Or can, my sense, not discern, engulfing ruin?
Webster
Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?
World English Bible
Is there injustice on my tongue? Can't my taste discern mischievous things?
Youngs Literal Translation
Is there in my tongue perverseness? Discerneth not my palate desirable things?
Interlinear
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 6:30
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Second Speech: A Response To Eliphaz
29
“Turn away [from your suspicion], let there be no injustice;
Turn away, my righteousness and vindication is still in it.
“Is there injustice or malice on my tongue?
Can my palate not discern what is destructive?
Names
Cross References
Job 12:11
“Does the ear not put words to the test,
Just as the palate tastes its food [distinguishing between the desirable and the undesirable]?
Job 6:6
“Can something that has no taste to it be eaten without salt?
Or is there any flavor in the white of an egg?
Job 33:8-12
“Surely you have spoken in my hearing,
And I have heard the sound of your words, saying:
Job 34:3
“For the ear puts words to the test
As the palate tastes food.
Job 42:3-6
“[You said to me] ‘Who is this that darkens and obscures counsel [by words] without knowledge?’
Therefore [I now see] I have [rashly] uttered that which I did not understand,
Things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.
Hebrews 5:14
But solid food is for the [spiritually] mature, whose senses are trained by practice to distinguish between what is morally good and what is evil.