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“Should the wise answer with windy knowledge,
and should he fill his stomach with the east wind?
Should he argue in talk that is not profitable
or in words with which he cannot do good?
What is worse,[a] you yourself[b] are doing away with fear,
and you are lessening meditation before[c] God.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 15:4 Literally “Also,” or “Even”
  2. Job 15:4 Emphatic personal pronoun
  3. Job 15:4 Literally “to the faces of”

“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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