Job 12:11
11 Does not the ear test words,
as ▼▼tn The
ו (
vav) introduces the comparison here (see
5:7;
11:12); see GKC 499 §161.
a.
the tongue ▼ tastes food? ▼▼tn The final preposition with its suffix is to be understood as a pleonastic
dativus ethicus and not translated (see GKC 439 §135.
i).
▼▼sn In the rest of the chapter Job turns his attention away from creation to the wisdom of ancient men. In
Job 13:1 when Job looks back to this part, he refers to both the eye and the ear. In vv.
13-25 Job refers to many catastrophes which he could not have seen, but must have heard about.
