Job 15:3
Good News Translation
No one who is wise would talk the way you do or defend himself with such meaningless words.

New Revised Standard Version
Should they argue in unprofitable talk, or in words with which they can do no good?

Contemporary English Version
you would stop spreading all of this hot air.

New American Bible
Does he argue in speech that does not avail, and in words that are to no profit?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou reprovest him by words, who is not equal to thee, and thou speakest that which is not good for thee.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Thou reprovest him by words, who is not equal to thee, and thou speakest that which is not good for thee.

he reason

Job 13:4,5 Having first shewn that you are forgers of lies, and maintainers of perverse opinions. . . .

Job 16:2,3 I have often heard such things as these: you are all troublesome comforters. . . .

Job 26:1-3 Then Job answered, and said: . . .

Malachi 3:13-15 Your words have been unsufferable to me, saith the Lord. . . .

Matthew 12:36,37 But I say unto you, that every idle word that men shall speak, they shall render an account for it in the day of judgment. . . .

Colossians 4:6 Let your speech be always in grace seasoned with salt: that you may know how you ought to answer every man.

1 Timothy 6:4,5 He is proud, knowing nothing, but sick about questions and strifes of words; from which arise envies, contentions, blasphemies, evil suspicions, . . .

Context
Eliphaz: Job Does Not Fear God
2Will a wise man answer as if he were speaking in the wind, and fill his stomach with burning heat? 3Thou reprovest him by words, who is not equal to thee, and thou speakest that which is not good for thee.4As much as is in thee, thou hast made void fear, and hast taken away prayers from before God.…
Cross References
Job 15:2
Will a wise man answer as if he were speaking in the wind, and fill his stomach with burning heat?

Job 15:4
As much as is in thee, thou hast made void fear, and hast taken away prayers from before God.

Job 15:2
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