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Job 12:11

Western Saints

Gregory the Dialogist

The ear trieth words, and the mouth of the eater savour. There is scarce a person that is ignorant that the five senses of our body, viz. of seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling, and touching, in all their operations of perceiving and discriminating derive the power of perception and discrimination from the brain. And whereas there is but one judge that presides within, viz. …

Morals on the Book of Job, Book XI ↗

Thomas Aquinas

Job asserted above (v.2) that what Sophar had said about the excellence of the greatness of God was evident to all men. Here he intends to show that men can come to an understanding of these things by the experience of divine power and wisdom in human affairs. First, then, he shows how men arrive at knowledge in things from experience, saying, "Does not the ear judge words" namely when it hears them, "and" does not "the palate of one eating," distinguish "flavor". …

Commentary on Job ↗