Job 15:1

Job’s intelligence questioned

1 Eliphaz answered:

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 Eliphaz answered:

2 Will the wise respond with windy knowledge and fill their belly with the east wind?

3 Will they argue with a word that has no benefit and with unprofitable words?

4 You are truly making religion ineffective and restraining meditation before God.

5 Your mouth multiplies your sins a thousand times; you opt for a clever tongue.