Job 15:1

1 And Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,

Job 15:1 Meaning and Commentary

Job 15:1

Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite
Or, who was of Teman, as the Targum, the first of Job's friends and comforters, the oldest of them, who first began the dispute with him; which was carried on by his two other companions, who had spoken in their turns; and now in course it fell to him to answer a second time, as he here does,

and said,
as follows.

Job 15:1 In-Context

1 And Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,

2 Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind,

3 Reasoning with unprofitable talk, and with speeches which do no good?

4 Yea, thou makest piety of none effect, and restrainest meditation before God.

5 For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou hast chosen the tongue of the crafty.