Job 15:2 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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

Job 15:2 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture 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?
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.
Job 11:2-3
Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should a man full of talk be justified? …

Topics

Ambition Arrogance Belly Conceit Haughtiness Heart Presumption Pride

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-16)

Eliphaz here falls very foul upon Job, because he contradicted what he and his colleagues had said, and did not acquiesce in it and applaud it, as they expected. Proud people are apt thus to take it very much amiss if they may not have leave to dictate and give law to all about them, and to censure those as ignorant and obstinate, and all that is naught, who cannot in every thing say as they say.…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 2)

SECOND SERIES. Job 15:1-35. Second Speech of Eliphaz. 2. a wise man--which Job claims to be. vain knowledge--Hebrew, “windy knowledge”; literally, “of wind” (Job 8:2). In Ec 1:14, Hebrew, “to catch wind,” expresses to strive for what is vain. east wind--stronger than the previous “wind,” for in that region the east wind is the most destructive of winds (Is 27:8). Thus here,--empty violence. belly-…