Job 15:3
Thou reprovest him by words, who is not equal to thee, and thou speakest that which is not good for thee.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?
In Context
2Will a wise man answer as if he were speaking in the wind, and fill his stomach with burning heat?
4As much as is in thee, thou hast made void fear, and hast taken away prayers from before God.
Cross References
Job 16:2I have often heard such things as these: you are all troublesome comforters.
Malachi 3:13Your words have been unsufferable to me, saith the Lord.
Colossians 4:6Let your speech be always in grace seasoned with salt: that you may know how you ought to answer every man.
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 →