Job 15:3
To reason with a word not useful? And speeches—no profit in them?
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?
In Context
2“Does a wise man answer [with] vain knowledge? And fill his belly [with] an east wind?
4Indeed, you make reverence void, and diminish meditation before God.
Cross References
Job 16:2“I have heard many such things, || Miserable comforters [are] you all.
Malachi 3:13“Your words have been hard against Me,” said YHWH, || “And you have said, What have we spoken against You?
Colossians 4:6your word always being seasoned with salt in grace—to know how it is necessary 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 →