Job 15:3
Should he argue with useless words or speeches that serve no purpose?
Majority Standard Bible
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 empty counsel or fill his belly with the hot east wind?
4But you even undermine the fear of God and hinder meditation before Him.
Cross References
Job 16:2“I have heard many things like these; miserable comforters are you all.
Malachi 3:13“Your words against Me have been harsh,” says the LORD. “Yet you ask, ‘What have we spoken against You?’
Colossians 4:6Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.
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 →