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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?
"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?
"Should a wise man answer with empty knowledge, And fill himself 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
After these things, the worde of the Lorde came vnto Abram in a vision, saying, Feare not, Abram, I am thy buckler, and thine exceeding great reward.
And Abram said, O Lord God, what wilt thou giue me, seeing I goe childlesse, and the steward of mine house is this Eliezer of Damascus?
Againe Abram saide, Beholde, to me thou hast giuen no seede: wherefore loe, a seruant of mine house shalbe mine heire.
Then beholde, the worde of the Lorde came vnto him, saying, This man shall not be thine heire, but one that shall come out of thine owne bowels, he shalbe thine heire.
And Abram beleeued the Lorde, and he counted that to him for righteousnesse.
Therefore Abraham saide vnto his eldest seruant of his house, which had the rule ouer all that he had, Put nowe thine hand vnder my thigh,
So the seruant tooke ten camels of the camels of his master, and departed: (for he had all his masters goods in his hand:) and so he arose, and went to Aram Naharaim, vnto the citie of Nahor.
And Izhak prayed vuto the Lorde for his wife, because she was barren: and the Lord was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceiued,
There is no ma greater in this house then I: neither hath he kept any thing from me, but only thee, because thou art his wife: how then can I do this great wickednes & so sinne against God?
Therefore came they to Iosephs stewarde, & communed with him at the doore of ye 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.
