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Job 15:2
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Does a wise man answer with empty counselor fill himself with the hot east wind?
"Should a wise man answer with vain knowledge, And fill himself with the east wind?
Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?
"Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?
"A wise person would not answer with empty words or fill his stomach with the hot east wind.
"Does a wise man answer with blustery knowledge, or fill his belly with the east wind?
"Should a wise man [such as you] utter such windy and vain knowledge [as we have just heard] And fill himself with the east wind [of withering, parching, and violent accusations]?
"Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge, And fill himself with the east wind?
"Should a wise man answer with vain knowledge, And fill himself with the east wind?
Shal a wise man speake words of ye winde, and fill his bellie with the East winde?
"Should a wise man answer with windy knowledgeAnd fill his belly with the east wind?
"Does a wise man answer with empty counsel or fill his belly with the hot east wind?
Job, if you had any sense,
"Should a wise man answer with hot-air arguments? Should he fill up his belly with the hot east wind?
Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind,
"If you were really wise, you would not answer with your worthless personal opinions! A wise man would not be so full of hot air.
Should a spiritually minded man answer with knowledge and then become enraged?
"Should the wise answer with windy knowledge, and should he fill his stomach with the east wind?
Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?
Shulde a wyse man geue soch an answere (as it were one that spake in the wynde) and fyll his stomacke with anger?
Should a wise man make answer with vain knowledge, And fill himself with the east wind?
Will a wise man make answer with knowledge of no value, or will he give birth to the east wind?
Should a wise man make answer with windy knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?
Should a wise man vtter vaine knowledge, and fill his belly with the East winde?
Shall a wyse mans aunswere be as the winde, and fill a mans belly as it were with the winde of the east?
Will a wise man give for answer a mere breath of wisdom? and does he fill up the pain of his belly,
Should a wise man make answer with vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?
Whether a wise man schal answere, as spekynge ayens the wynd, and schal fille his stomac with brennyng, `that is, ire?
Should a wise man make answer with vain knowledge, And fill himself with the east wind?
Should a wise men utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?
"A wise man wouldn't answer with such empty talk! You are nothing but a windbag.
"Should a wise man answer with learning that is of no worth, and fill himself with the east wind?
"Should the wise answer with windy knowledge, and fill themselves with the east wind?
Should, a wise man, answer unreal knowledge? or fill, with the east wind, his inner man?
Will a wise man answer as if he were speaking in the wind, and fill his stomach with burning heat?
"Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge, and fill himself with the east wind?
Doth a wise man answer [with] vain knowledge? And fill [with] an east wind his belly?
"Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge And fill himself with the east wind?
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
a wise man: Job 11:2, Job 11:3, Job 13:2, James 3:13
vain knowledge: Heb. knowledge of wind, Job 6:26, Job 8:2
fill: Hosea 12:1
Reciprocal: Job 12:2 - ye are the people Job 16:3 - vain words Job 24:25 - who will make Job 33:3 - my lips Job 34:35 - General Isaiah 44:20 - feedeth
Cross-References
Hebrews 11:8-10">[xr] After these things the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision, saying, "Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward."
But Abram said, "Lord GOD, what will You give me, seeing I go childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?"
Then Abram said, "Look, You have given me no offspring; indeed one born in my house is my heir!"
And behold, the word of the LORD came to him, saying, "This one shall not be your heir, but one who will come from your own body shall be your heir."
And he believed in the LORD, and He accounted it to him for righteousness.
So Abraham said to the oldest servant of his house, who ruled over all that he had, "Please, put your hand under my thigh,
Then the servant took ten of his master's camels and departed, for all his master's goods were in his hand. And he arose and went to Mesopotamia, to the city of Nahor.
Now Isaac pleaded with the LORD for his wife, because she was barren; and the LORD granted his plea, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
There is no one greater in this house than I, nor has he kept back anything from me but you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?"
When they drew near to the steward of Joseph's house, they talked with him at the door of the house,
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Should a wise man utter vain knowledge,.... As Job had been thought to be, or as he himself thought he was, which he might say sarcastically; or as he really was, not worldly wise, nor merely wise in things natural, but in things divine; being one that had the fear of God, which is the beginning of wisdom, and wisdom itself; believed in Christ, and walked wisely and circumspectly before men; now it is not becoming such a man to utter vain knowledge, or such knowledge as is like the wind, or, as the Targum, windy knowledge; empty, not solid, nor satisfying, but swells and puffs up, and is knowledge falsely so called; but it does not appear that Job did utter such vain and fruitless things as deserved to be compared to the wind:
and fill his belly with the east wind; which is noisy and blusterous, rapid and forcible, bearing all before it, and very infectious in hot countries; and such notions Job, according to Eliphaz, satisfied himself with, and endeavoured to insinuate them into others; which were nothing but great swelling words of vanity, and tended to subvert the faith of men, and overthrow all religion, and were very unwholesome, infectious, and ruinous to the minds of men, as suggested.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Should a wise man - Referring to Job, and to his claims to be esteemed wise; see Job 12:3; Job 13:2, Job 13:6. The argument of Eliphaz here is, that the sentiments which Job had advanced were a sufficient refutation of his pretensions to wisdom. A wise man would not be guilty of “mere talk,” or of using language that conveyed no ideas.
Utter - literally, answer. It refers to the replies which Job had made to the arguments of his friends.
Vain knowledge - Margin, “Knowledge of wind.” So the Hebrew; see Job 6:26; Job 7:7. The “wind” is used to denote what is unsubstantial, vain, changing. Here it is used as an emblem of remarks which were vain, empty, and irrelevant.
And fill his belly - Fill his mind with unsubstantial arguments or sentiments - as little fitted for utility as the east wind is for food. The image is, “he fills himself with mere wind, and then blows it out under pretence of delivering the maxims of wisdom.”
With the east wind - The east wind was not only tempestuous and vehement, but sultry, and destructive to vegetation. It passed over vast deserts, and was characterized by great dryness and heat. It is used here to denote a manner of discourse that had in it nothing profitable.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 15:2. Should a wise man utter vain knowledge — Or rather, Should a wise man utter the science of wind? A science without solidity or certainty.
And fill his belly with the east wind? — בטן beten, which we translate belly, is used to signify any part of the cavity of the body, whether the region of the thorax or abdomen; here it evidently refers to the lungs, and may include the cheeks and fauces. The east wind, קדים kadim, is a very stormy wind in the Levant, or the eastern part of the Mediterranean Sea, supposed to be the same with that called by the Greeks ευροκλυδων, euroclydon, the east storm, mentioned Acts 27:14. Eliphaz, by these words, seems to intimate that Job's speech was a perfect storm or tempest of words.
