Job 15:3
Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?
Job 15:3 in other translations
| BSB | Should he argue with useless words or speeches that serve no purpose? |
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| WEB | Should he reason with unprofitable talk, or with speeches with which he can do no good? |
| ASV | Should he reason with unprofitable talk, Or with speeches wherewith he can do no good? |
| YLT | To reason with a word not useful? And speeches--no profit in them? |
| DARBY | Reasoning with unprofitable talk, and with speeches which do no good? |
| BBE | Will he make arguments with words in which is no profit, and with sayings which have no value? |
| Webster | Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches with which he can do no good? |
What does Job 15:3 mean?
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 15:1-16
Eliphaz begins a second attack upon Job, instead of being softened by his complaints. He unjustly charges Job with casting off the fear of God, and all regard to him, and restraining prayer. See in what religion is summed up, fearing God, and praying to him; the former the most needful principle, the latter the most needful practice. Eliphaz charges Job with self-conceit. He charges him with contempt of the counsels…
Job 15:3 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Job 15:3
- 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. For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.
- Colossians 4:6
Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
- 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? Ye have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the Lord of hosts? And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered.
- Job 26:1-3
But Job answered and said, How hast thou helped him that is without power? how savest thou the arm that hath no strength? How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom? and how hast thou plentifully declared the thing as it is?
- 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, Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.
- Job 16:2-3
I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all. Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?
- Job 13:4-5
But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value. O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.
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Context
- Job 15:2
Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?
- Job 15:3
Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?
- Job 15:4
Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God.
Job 15:3 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | ¿Disputará con palabras inútiles, y con razones sin provecho? |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Contestant en paroles qui ne profitent pas et en discours qui ne servent à rien? |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | streitend mit Reden, die nichts taugen, und mit Worten, womit er nicht nützt? |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Arguis verbis eum qui non est æqualis tibi, et loqueris quod tibi non expedit. |