Job 15:3
Disputing with discourse that doth no good, or with speech, wherein is no profit?
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
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, answer unreal knowledge? or fill, with the east wind, his inner man?
4But, thou, wouldst take away reverence, and wouldst attain unto meditation before GOD.
Cross References
Job 16:2I have heard many such things, Wearisome comforters, are ye all!
Malachi 3:13Stout against me, have been your words, saith Yahweh,—and yet ye say, What have we spoken, one to another, against thee?
Colossians 4:6Your discourse being always with benefit, with salt, seasoned,—that ye may know how it behoveth you, unto each one, to be making answer.
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 →