◄ Job 15:2 ►
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New Revised Standard Version
“Should the wise answer with windy knowledge, and fill themselves with the east wind?

Contemporary English Version
Job, if you had any sense,

New American Bible
Does a wise man answer with windy opinions, or puff himself up with the east wind?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Will a wise man answer as if he were speaking in the wind, and fill his stomach with burning heat?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Will a wise man answer as if he were speaking in the wind, and fill his stomach with burning heat?

a wise man

Job 11:2,3 Shall not he that speaketh much, hear also? or shall a man full of talk be justified? . . .

Job 13:2 According to your knowledge I also know: neither am I inferior to you.

James 3:13 Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge, among you? Let him shew, by a good contestation, his work in the meekness of wisdom.

vain knowledge.

Job 6:26 You dress up speeches only to rebuke, and you utter words to the wind.

Job 8:2 How long wilt thou speak these things, and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind?

fill

Hosea 12:1 Ephraim feedeth on the wind, and followeth the burning heat: all the day long he multiplied lies and desolation: and he hath made a covenant with the Assyrians, and carried oil into Egypt.

Context
Eliphaz: Job Does Not Fear God
1And Eliphaz the Themanite, answered, and said: 2Will a wise man answer as if he were speaking in the wind, and fill his stomach with burning heat?3Thou reprovest him by words, who is not equal to thee, and thou speakest that which is not good for thee.…
Cross References
Job 6:26
You dress up speeches only to rebuke, and you utter words to the wind.

Job 11:2
Shall not he that speaketh much, hear also? or shall a man full of talk be justified?

Job 15:1
And Eliphaz the Themanite, answered, and said:

Job 15:3
Thou reprovest him by words, who is not equal to thee, and thou speakest that which is not good for thee.

Job 15:1
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