Job 15:1

1 And Eliphaz the Temanite answereth and saith: --

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 answereth and saith: --

2 Doth a wise man answer [with] vain knowledge? And fill [with] an east wind his belly?

3 To reason with a word not useful? And speeches -- no profit in them?

4 Yea, thou dost make reverence void, And dost diminish meditation before God.

5 For thy mouth teacheth thine iniquity, And thou chooseth the tongue of the subtile.