Job 15:3
Should he reason with unprofitable talk, or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?
Revised Version 1895
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 make answer with vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?
4Yea, thou doest away with fear, and restrainest devotion before God.
Cross References
Job 16:2I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.
Malachi 3:13Your words have been stout against me, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, Wherein have we spoken against thee?
Colossians 4:6Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought 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 →