Job 6:30

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

Ver. 30. Is there iniquity in my tongue?] Yea, or else you shall pass for a perfect man, and well able to bridle the whole body, James 3:2. St Paul, Romans 3:13, anatomizing a natural man, standeth more upon the organs of speech, his tongue, lips, mouth, throat, &c., than upon all the other members. But Job was a perfect and an upright man, Job 1:1, he had said he would take heed to his ways, that he sinned not with his tongue, Psalms 39:1, he was also convinced of this, that if any man seem to be religious, and bridle not his tongue, that man's religion was in vain, James 1:26. He did not therefore prepensedly and willingly lash out in sinful or superfluous language.

Cannot my taste discern perverse things?] Cannot I distinguish between right and wrong, truth and falsehood? Job 12:11; Job 34:3. Is my mouth so far out of taste? &c. It is a heavy judgment to be given up to an injudicious mind, Romans 1:28, a reprobate sense.