The Meaning of Job 6:30 Explained

Job 6:30

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

YLT: Is there in my tongue perverseness? Discerneth not my palate desirable things?

Darby: Is there wrong in my tongue? cannot my taste discern mischievous things?

ASV: Is there injustice on my tongue? Cannot my taste discern mischievous things?

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CONTEXT: What is the Context of Job 6:30?

MEANING: What does Job 6:30 Mean?

WORDS: What do the individual words in Job 6:30 mean?

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What is the context of Job 6:30?

KJV Reverse Interlinear

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

What does Job 6:30 Mean?

Context Summary

Job 6:1-30 - "a Deceitful Brook"

The burden of Job's complaint is the ill-treatment meted out by his friends. They had accused him of speaking rashly, but they had not measured the greatness of his pain, Job 6:4, or they would have seen it to be as natural as the braying and lowing of hungry and suffering beasts, Job 6:5. A man would not take insipid food without complaint; how much more reason had he to complain whose tears were his meat day and night, Job 6:6-7! So bitter were his pains that he would welcome death, and exult in the throes of dissolution, Job 6:8-10. It could hardly be otherwise than that he should succumb, since he had only the ordinary strength of mortals, and both strength and wisdom were exhausted, Job 6:11-13.

Job next characterizes the assistance of his friends as winter brooks, turbid with melted ice and snow, which bitterly disappoint the travelers who had hoped to find water, and perish beside the dry heaps of stones, Job 6:17. They had found fault with his words, which, in the circumstances, were not a true index to his heart, Job 6:26; but a look into his face would have sufficed to attest his innocence of the sin of which they accused him, Job 6:28-30.

From these complaints of faithlessness and disappointment we turn to Him who, having been made perfect through suffering, has become "the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey Him," Hebrews 5:9. [source]

Chapter Summary: Job 6

¹ Job shows that his complaints are not causeless
⁸ He wishes for death, wherein he is assured of comfort
¹⁴ He reproves his friends of unkindness

What do the individual words in Job 6:30 mean?

Is there on my tongue injustice lo my taste Cannot discern the unsavory

הֲיֵשׁ־ ؟ בִּלְשׁוֹנִ֥י עַוְלָ֑ה אִם־ חִ֝כִּ֗י לֹא־ יָבִ֥ין ؟ הַוּֽוֹת

הֲיֵשׁ־	Is there
Parse: Adverb Root: יֵשׁ Sense: being, existence, substance, there is or are.
؟ בִּלְשׁוֹנִ֥י	on my tongue
Parse: Preposition-b, Noun, common singular construct, first person common singular Root: לָשֹׁון Sense: tongue.
עַוְלָ֑ה	injustice
Parse: Noun, feminine singular Root: עָוֶל Sense: injustice, unrighteousness, wrong.
אִם־	lo
Parse: Conjunction Root: אִם Sense: if.
חִ֝כִּ֗י	my taste
Parse: Noun, masculine singular construct, first person common singular Root: חֵךְ Sense: mouth, palate, taste, gums.
לֹא־	Cannot
Parse: Adverb, Negative particle Root: הֲלֹא Sense: not, no.
יָבִ֥ין	discern
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect, third person masculine singular Root: בִּין Sense: to discern, understand, consider.
؟ הַוּֽוֹת	the unsavory
Parse: Noun, feminine plural Root: הַוָּה Sense: desire.

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Similar Scriptures for Job 6:30

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