Job 15:1

1 Then 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 Then Eliphaz, the Temanite, answered, and said,

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

3 Should he dispute with useless words and with reasons that are not profitable?

4 Thou dost also cast off fear and undermine prayer before God.

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