Job 15:3
Should he reason with useless talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?
Updated King James Version
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 utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?
4Yea, you cast off fear, and restrain prayer before God.
Cross References
Job 16:2I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are all of you all.
Malachi 3:13Your words have been stout against me, says the LORD. Yet all of you say, What have we spoken so much against you?
Colossians 4:6Let your (o. logos) speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that all of you may know how all of you ought to answer every man.
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 →