Job 15:3
To reason with a word not useful? And speeches — no profit in them?
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?
In Context
2Doth a wise man answer [with] vain knowledge? And fill [with] an east wind his belly?
4Yea, thou dost make reverence void, And dost diminish meditation before God.
Cross References
Job 16:2I have heard many such things, Miserable comforters [are] ye all.
Malachi 3:13Hard against Me have been your words, Said Jehovah, and ye have said: 'What have we spoken against Thee?'
Colossians 4:6your word always in grace — with salt being seasoned — to know how it behoveth you 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 →