Job 15:2 - English Standard Version 2016

² “Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, And fill his belly with the east wind?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² Should a wise man utter such windy knowledge [as we have just heard] and fill himself with the east wind [of withering, parching, and violent accusations]?

American Standard Version (1901)

² Should a wise man make answer with vain knowledge, And fill himself with the east wind?

Common English Bible

² Will the wise respond with windy knowledge and fill their belly with the east wind?

Catholic Public Domain Version

² Will a wise man answer as if he were speaking wind, and will he fill his stomach with fire?

Job 15:2 Marejeleo ya Msalaba

Job 13:2

What you know, I also know; I am not inferior to you.

Job 15:1

Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said:

Job 15:3

Should he argue in unprofitable talk, or in words with which he can do no good?

Job 6:26

Do you think that you can reprove words, when the speech of a despairing man is wind?

Job 8:2

“How long will you say these things, and the words of your mouth be a great wind?

Proverbs 16:23

The heart of the wise makes his speech judicious and adds persuasiveness to his lips.

Ecclesiastes 5:15

As he came from his mother’s womb he shall go again, naked as he came, and shall take nothing for his toil that he may carry away in his hand.

Hosea 12:1

Ephraim feeds on the wind and pursues the east wind all day long; they multiply falsehood and violence; they make a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried to Egypt.

Hosea 12:2

The Lord has an indictment against Judah and will punish Jacob according to his ways; he will repay him according to his deeds.

James 3:13

Who is wise and understanding among you? By his good conduct let him show his works in the meekness of wisdom.