Eliphaz: Job Does Not Fear God
Job 15:2
In 11 translations
- BSB
- “Does a wise man answer with empty counsel or fill his belly with the hot east wind?
- KJV
- Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?vain…: Heb. knowledge of wind
- WEB
- “Should a wise man answer with vain knowledge, and fill himself with the east wind?
- ASV
- Should a wise man make answer with vain knowledge, And fill himself with the east wind?
- LSV
- “Does a wise man answer [with] vain knowledge? And fill his belly [with] an east wind?
- YLT
- Doth a wise man answer [with] vain knowledge? And fill [with] an east wind his belly?
- DBY
- Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind,
- DRC
- Will a wise man answer as if he were speaking in the wind, and fill his stomach with burning heat?
- GNV
- Shal a wise man speake words of ye winde, and fill his bellie with the East winde?
- JPS
- Should a wise man make answer with windy knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?
- LXXE
- Will a wise man give for answer a mere breath of wisdom? and does he fill up the pain of his belly,
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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.
Original-language editions
- WLC
- הֶֽחָכָ֗ם יַעֲנֶ֥ה דַֽעַת־ר֑וּחַ וִֽימַלֵּ֖א קָדִ֣ים בִּטְנֽוֹ׃
- LXX-Br
- Πότερον σοφὸς ἀπόκρισιν δώσει συνέσεως πνεῦμα, καὶ ἐνέπλησε πόνον γαστρὸς,
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Cross-references most cited first
- Job 6:26Do you intend to correct my words, and treat as wind my cry of despair?
- Job 8:2“How long will you go on saying such things? The words of your mouth are a blustering wind.
- Job 11:2–3“Should this stream of words go unanswered and such a speaker be vindicated? Should your babbling put others to silence? Will you scoff without rebuke?
- Hosea 12:1Ephraim chases the wind and pursues the east wind all day long; he multiplies lies and violence; he makes a covenant with Assyria and sends olive oil to Egypt.
- Job 13:2What you know, I also know; I am not inferior to you.
- James 3:13Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show it by his good conduct, by deeds done in the humility that comes from wisdom.
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