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“Should a wise person respond with knowledge based on wind?
    Should he fill his stomach with a wind storm from the east?
Should he engage in unprofitable argument,
    or give a speech that benefits no one?
Yet you dispense with fear of God
    and hinder meditations before God.

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“Would a wise person answer with empty notions
    or fill their belly with the hot east wind?(A)
Would they argue with useless words,
    with speeches that have no value?(B)
But you even undermine piety
    and hinder devotion to God.(C)

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