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Eliphaz's Second Speech

If You Had Any Sense

15 Eliphaz from Teman[a] said:
* Job, if you had any sense,
you would stop spreading
    all of this hot air.

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Footnotes

  1. 15.1 Teman: See the note at 2.11.

Eliphaz

15 Then Eliphaz the Temanite(A) replied:

“Would a wise person answer with empty notions
    or fill their belly with the hot east wind?(B)
Would they argue with useless words,
    with speeches that have no value?(C)

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15 Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,

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

Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?

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