Job 15:1

Eliphaz’s Second Response to Job

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 [the] wise answer [with] windy knowledge, and should he fill his stomach [with the] east wind?

3 Should he argue in talk [that] is not profitable or [in] words with which he cannot do good?

4 "{What is worse}, you yourself are doing away with fear, and you are lessening meditation {before} God.

5 For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose [the] tongue of [the] crafty.

Footnotes

• [a]. Hebrew "And"