30 Is there any wickedness on my lips? Can my mouth not discern malice?
30 Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste
30 Is there any injustice on my tongue? Cannot my palate discern the cause of calamity?
30 Can you detect anything false in what I say? Don't you trust me to discern good from evil?
30 Is there injustice on my tongue? Cannot my taste discern the unsavory?
30 Do you think I am lying? Don't I know the difference between right and wrong?
11 Does not the ear test words as the tongue tastes food?
11 Doth not the ear try words? and the mouth
11 Does not the ear test words as the palate tastes food?
11 Isn't this all just common sense, as common as the sense of taste?
11 Does not the ear test words And the mouth taste its food?
11 The ear tests the words it hears just as the mouth distinguishes between foods.
(Read Job 12:6-11)
Job appeals to facts. The most audacious robbers, oppressors, and impious wretches, often prosper. Yet this is not by fortune or chance; the Lord orders these things. Worldly prosperity is of small value in his sight: he has better things for his children. Job resolves all into the absolute proprietorship which God has in all the creatures. He demands from his friends liberty to judge of what they had said; he appeals to any fair judgment.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Job 6:30
Commentary on Job 6:14-30
(Read 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, Hebrews 4:16. Those who make gold their hope, sooner or later will be ashamed of it, and of their confidence in it. It is our wisdom to cease from man. Let us put all our confidence in the Rock of ages, not in broken reeds; in the Fountain of life, not in broken cisterns. The application is very close; "for now ye are nothing." It were well for us, if we had always such convictions of the vanity of the creature, as we have had, or shall have, on a sick-bed, a death-bed, or in trouble of conscience. Job upbraids his friends with their hard usage. Though in want, he desired no more from them than a good look and a good word. It often happens that, even when we expect little from man, we have less; but from God, even when we expect much, we have more. Though Job differed from them, yet he was ready to yield as soon as it was made to appear that he was in error. Though Job had been in fault, yet they ought not to have given him such hard usage. His righteousness he holds fast, and will not let it go. He felt that there had not been such iniquity in him as they supposed. But it is best to commit our characters to Him who keeps our souls; in the great day every upright believer shall have praise of God.