Job 15:2
New International Version
“Would a wise person answer with empty notions or fill their belly with the hot east wind?

New Living Translation
“A wise man wouldn’t answer with such empty talk! You are nothing but a windbag.

English Standard Version
“Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?

Berean Standard Bible
“Does a wise man answer with empty counsel or fill his belly with the hot east wind?

King James Bible
Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?

New King James Version
“Should a wise man answer with empty knowledge, And fill himself with the east wind?

New American Standard Bible
“Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge, And fill himself with the east wind?

NASB 1995
“Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge And fill himself with the east wind?

NASB 1977
“Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge, And fill himself with the east wind?

Legacy Standard Bible
“Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge And fill his belly with the east wind?

Amplified Bible
“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]?

Christian Standard Bible
Does a wise man answer with empty counsel or fill himself with the hot east wind?

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Does a wise man answer with empty counsel or fill himself with the hot east wind?

American Standard Version
Should a wise man make answer with vain knowledge, And fill himself with the east wind?

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
“Will the wise of spirit answer in knowledge and anger fill his belly

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Will a wise man give for answer a mere breath of wisdom? and does he fill up the pain of his belly,

Contemporary English Version
Job, if you had any sense,

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

English Revised Version
Should a wise man make answer with vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?

GOD'S WORD® Translation
"Should a wise person answer with endless details and fill his stomach with the east wind?

International Standard Version
"Should a wise person respond with knowledge based on wind? Should he fill his stomach with a wind storm from the east?

JPS Tanakh 1917
Should a wise man make answer with windy knowledge, And fill his belly with the east wind?

Literal Standard Version
“Does a wise man answer [with] vain knowledge? And fill his belly [with] an east wind?

Majority Standard Bible
“Does a wise man answer with empty counsel or fill his belly with the hot east wind?

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

NET Bible
"Does a wise man answer with blustery knowledge, or fill his belly with the east wind?

New Revised Standard Version
“Should the wise answer with windy knowledge, and fill themselves with the east wind?

New Heart English Bible
"Should a wise man answer with vain knowledge, and fill himself with the east wind?

Webster's Bible Translation
Should a wise men utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?

World English Bible
“Should a wise man answer with vain knowledge, and fill himself with the east wind?

Young's Literal Translation
Doth a wise man answer with vain knowledge? And fill with an east wind his belly?

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Eliphaz: Job Does Not Fear God
1Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied: 2“Does a wise man answer with empty counsel or fill his belly with the hot east wind? 3Should he argue with useless words or speeches that serve no purpose?…

Cross References
Job 6:26
Do you intend to correct my words, and treat as wind my cry of despair?

Job 11:2
"Should this stream of words go unanswered and such a speaker be vindicated?

Job 15:1
Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:

Job 15:3
Should he argue with useless words or speeches that serve no purpose?


Treasury of Scripture

Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?

a wise man

Job 11:2,3
Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should a man full of talk be justified? …

Job 13:2
What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you.

James 3:13
Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.

vain knowledge.

Job 6:26
Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as 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 wind, and followeth after the east wind: he daily increaseth lies and desolation; and they do make a covenant with the Assyrians, and oil is carried into Egypt.

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Job 15
1. Eliphaz reproves Job for impiety in justifying himself
17. He proves by tradition the restlessness of wicked men














(2) Should a wise man utter vain knowledge . . .--Job therefore is not wise, and his words have been vain and windy.



Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
“Does a wise
הֶֽחָכָ֗ם (he·ḥā·ḵām)
Article | Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 2450: Wise

man answer
יַעֲנֶ֥ה (ya·‘ă·neh)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 6030: To answer, respond

with empty
ר֑וּחַ (rū·aḥ)
Noun - common singular
Strong's 7307: Wind, breath, exhalation, life, anger, unsubstantiality, a region of the sky, spirit

counsel
דַֽעַת־ (ḏa·‘aṯ-)
Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 1847: Knowledge

or fill
וִֽימַלֵּ֖א (wî·mal·lê)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Conjunctive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 4390: To fill, be full of

his belly
בִּטְנֽוֹ׃ (biṭ·nōw)
Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 990: The belly, the womb, the bosom, body of anything

with the hot east wind?
קָדִ֣ים (qā·ḏîm)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 6921: The fore, front part, the East


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