Job 15:3
Should he reason with unprofitable talk, or with speeches with which he can do no good?
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?
In Context
2Should a wise man make answer with vain knowledge, and fill himself with the east wind?
4Yea, thou do away with fear, and hinder devotion before God.
Cross References
Job 16:2I have heard many such things. Miserable comforters are ye all.
Malachi 3:13Your words have been stout against me, says LORD. Yet ye say, What have we spoken against thee?
Colossians 4:6your speech always with grace seasoned with salt, to know how it is fitting for you to answer each one.
Matthew Henry on Job 15:2-17
Second Address of Eliphaz. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said, 2 Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind? 3 Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good? 4 Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God. 5 For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty. 6 Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee. 7 Art thou the first… Read the whole commentary →