Job 6 · Verse 30

Job 6:30

Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?
Job 6:30, King James Version

Job 6:30 in other translations

BSBIs there iniquity on my tongue? Can my mouth not discern malice?
WEBIs there injustice on my tongue? Can’t my taste discern mischievous things?
ASVIs there injustice on my tongue? Cannot my taste discern mischievous things?
YLTIs there in my tongue perverseness? Discerneth not my palate desirable things?
DARBYIs there wrong in my tongue? cannot my taste discern mischievous things?
BBEIs there evil in my tongue? is not the cause of my trouble clear to me?
WebsterIs there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?

What does Job 6:30 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
30. Will you say that my guilt lies in the organ of speech, and will you call it to account? or, Is it that my taste (palate) or discernment is not capable to form a judgment of perverse things? Is it thus you will explain the fact of my having no consciousness of guilt? [Umbreit].

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 30 Is there iniquity in my tongue? - Am I not an honest man? and if in my haste my tongue had uttered falsity, would not my conscience discern it? and do you think that such a man as your friend is would defend what he knew to be wrong? I Have done what I could to make this chapter plain, to preserve the connection, and show the dependence of the several parts on each other; without which many of the sayings would have been very obscure. The whole chapter is an inimitable apology for what he had uttered, and a defense of his conduct. This might have ended the controversy, had not his friends been determined to bring him in guilty. They had prejudged his cause, and assumed a certain position, from which they were determined not to be driven.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 6:14-30

In his prosperity Job formed great expectations from his friends, but now was disappointed. This he compares to the failing of brooks in summer. Those who rest their expectations on the creature, will find it fail when it should help them; whereas those who make God their confidence, have help in the time of need, He 4:16. Those who make gold their hope, sooner or later will be ashamed of it, and of their confidence…

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Job 6:30 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

הֲיֵשׁ\־ha.yesh-¿ [is] thereH3426
בִּלְשׁוֹנִ֥יbil.sho.Nion tongue myH3956
עַוְלָ֑ה'av.LahinjusticeH5766
אִם\־'im-or?H518
חִ֝כִּ֗יchi.Kipalate myH2441
לֹא\־lo'-notH3808
יָבִ֥יןya.Vindoes it discernH995
הַוּֽוֹת\׃ha.Votdestruction<s>H1942

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Job 6:30

  • Job 12:11

    Doth not the ear try words? and the mouth taste his meat?

  • Job 34:3

    For the ear trieth words, as the mouth tasteth meat.

  • Job 6:6

    Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egg?

  • Job 33:8-12

    Surely thou hast spoken in mine hearing, and I have heard the voice of thy words, saying, I am clean without transgression, I am innocent; neither is there iniquity in me. Behold, he findeth occasions against me, he counteth me for his enemy, He putteth my feet in the stocks, he marketh all my paths. …

  • Job 42:3-6

    Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not. Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me. I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee. Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.

  • Hebrews 5:14

    But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
iniquity.
33:8-12; 42:3-6
cannot.
6; 12:11; 34:3; Heb 5:14
taste. Heb. palate.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Job 6:29

    Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yea, return again, my righteousness is in it.

  • Job 6:30

    Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?

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Job 6:30 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		¿Hay iniquidad en mi lengua? ¿no puede mi paladar discernir las cosas depravadas?
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Y a-t-il de l’iniquité en ma langue? Mon palais ne discernerait-il pas la méchanceté?
German
Elberfelder 1871		Ist Unrecht auf meiner Zunge? oder sollte mein Gaumen Frevelhaftes nicht unterscheiden?
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Et non invenietis in lingua mea iniquitatem, nec in faucibus meis stultitia personabit.