Job 6:30

30. Iniquity Is there wrong in my tongue?

Taste Cannot my palate discern that which is perverse? Of all human beings he himself knows best about his own heart and life, as one’s own palate is best fitted to discern its own objects of taste. The word palate is here used metaphorically for the moral judgment. It is this that tries “perverse things,” הוות not “calamities,” as Zockler would read, but a “wickedness which completely contaminates feeling and utterance.” See Psalms 52:2, where the same word is used and rendered “mischiefs.”