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Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary

Job 6:30

Consider again, and more thoroughly examine, if there be any untruth or iniquity in what I have already said, or shall further speak to you. My taste. i.e. my judgment, which discerns and judgeth of words and actions as the taste or palate doth of meats. Perverse things, i.e. false opinions or sinful expressions. I am not so bereft of common understanding, as not to be able to distinguish between good and evil; and therefore if I have uttered, or should utter, any perverse words, I should apprehend them to be so as well as you do.

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See also Job 6:30 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Job 6:30. _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...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    IS THERE INIQUITY IN MY TONGUE? - This is a solemn appeal to their consciences, and their own deep conviction that he was sincere. Iniquity in the tongue means falsehood, deceit, hypocrisy - that whic...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

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  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    Job appeals to his friends to give him a fair hearing. Let them look him in the face (Job 6:28). We must imagine, says Duhm, that during Job's speech, and especially during the last sharp sayings, the...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    In Job 6:28 Job asseverated that he spoke truth in affirming his innocence. In Job 6:29 he affirmed that he had right on his side in his plea against God, in other words that he was wrongly afflicted....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

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  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

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  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

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  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    6:30 taste (c-9) Lit. 'palate.' see ch. 12.11....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    הֲ יֵשׁ ־בִּ לְשֹׁונִ֥י עַוְלָ֑ה אִם ־חִ֝כִּ֗

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

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  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

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  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

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  • John Brown Commentaries Selected Books of the Bible

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  • John Darby's Synopsis

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  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

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  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

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  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    JOB CRITICIZES ELIPHAZ FOR HIS CONDUCT...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    MY TASTE: _ Heb._ my palate...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

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  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 6:30 there H3426 injustice H5766 tongue H3956 taste H2441 discern H995 (H8799) unsavory H1942 iniquity -...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

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  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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  • The Biblical Illustrator

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  • The Biblical Illustrator

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  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

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  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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  • The Pulpit Commentaries

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  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

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  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Is there — Consider if there be any untruth or iniquity in what I have already said, or shall farther speak. Taste — My judgment, which judgeth of words and actions, as the palate doth of meats....

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