Job 15:3 · KJV
“Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?”
— Job 15:3
Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind? {vain...: Heb. knowledge of wind}
Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God. {castest...: Heb. makest void} {prayer: or, speech}
Job 15 — Context
Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,
2Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind? {vain...: Heb. knowledge of wind}
3Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?
4Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God. {castest...: Heb. makest void} {prayer: or, speech}
5For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty. {uttereth: Heb. teacheth}
Cross References
Colossians 4:6
Let your speech {be} alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
Matthew 12:36-37
But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.
Job 26:1-3
But Job answered and said,
Job 16:2-3
I have heard many such things: miserable comforters {are} ye all. {miserable: or, troublesome}
Job 13:4-5
But ye {are} forgers of lies, ye {are} all physicians of no value.
Malachi 3:13-15
Your words have been stout against me, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, What have we spoken {so much} against thee?
1 Timothy 6:4-5
He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings, {proud: or, a fool} {doting: or, sick}