Charles Ellicott Commentary Job 6:30

"Is there injustice on my tongue? Cannot my taste discern mischievous things?" — Job 6:30 (ASV)

Is there iniquity? —Or, injustice in my tongue? Is my taste so perverted that it cannot perceive what is perverse? “You appear to think that I am wholly incapable of judging my own cause because it is my own; but if you will only condescend to return in due course, you will find that I know what is right as well as you, and that there is no more faulty reasoning in me than there is with you, and probably less.”

It is difficult to draw out the argument of Job in the logical form of our Western thought, and to trace the line of connection running through it.

If we look at it in detail—as we must in order to explain it—then we are likely to look at it piecemeal, and miss the thread; but in fact, it is just this very thread that is so difficult to detect and retain from one chapter to another.