Job 15:3

Reasoning with improper sayings, 1 And with words wherein is no profit? 1

Updated Brenton Septuagint

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 give for answer a mere breath of wisdom? 1 And does he fill up the pain of his belly, 1

4Hast not thou moreover cast off fear, 1 And accomplished such words before the Lord? 1

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Cross References

Job 16:2I have heard many such things: 1 Poor comforters are ye all. 1

Malachi 3:13Ye have spoken grievous words against me, saith the Lord. Yet ye said, Wherein have we spoken against thee?

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 →

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