Should he reason with unprofitable talk, or with speeches with which he can do no good?
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Should he reason with unprofitable talk, or with speeches with which he can do no good?
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Should he reason with unprofitable talk, or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?
Cross-references (7)
Passages linked to Job 15:3 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Matthew 12:36-37 I tell you that every idle word that men speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment. For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”
- Colossians 4:6 Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.
- Job 13:4-5 But you are forgers of lies. You are all physicians of no value. Oh that you would be completely silent! Then you would be wise.
- Job 16:2-3 “I have heard many such things. You are all miserable comforters! Shall vain words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?
- Job 26:1-3 Then Job answered, “How have you helped him who is without power! How have you saved the arm that has no strength! How have you counseled him who has no wisdom, and plentifully declared sound knowledge!
- Malachi 3:13-15 “Your words have been stout against me,” says Yahweh. “Yet you say, ‘What have we spoken against you?’ You have said, ‘It is vain to serve God;’ and ‘What profit is it that we have followed his instructions, and that we have walked mournfully before Yahweh of Armies? Now we call the proud happy; yes, those who work wickedness are built up; yes, they tempt God, and escape.’
- 1 Timothy 6:4-5 he is conceited, knowing nothing, but obsessed with arguments, disputes, and word battles, from which come envy, strife, insulting, evil suspicions, constant friction of people of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. Withdraw yourself from such.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Job 15:3 Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or…
Job 15:3 Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?
Ver. 3. Should he reason with unprofitable talk?] Why? But if he do, should he, therefore, be thus rippled up, and roughly hewen? And not rather reduced and rectified with hard arguments and soft words? Man is a cross crabbed creature: Duci vult, trahi non vult, Persuade him you may; compel him you cannot. A fit time also must be taken to persuade him to better, for else you may lose your sweet words upon him. The husbandman soweth not in a storm; the mariner hoisteth not sail in every wind; good physicians evacuate not the body in extremity of heat and cold. "A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city," Pro 18:19. This Eliphaz should have considered, and not so rashly censured Job for a fool, and his talk for trash, but rather handled him tenderly, considering his condition, and desired him to explain such of his speeches as he thought not so well and wisely uttered.
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Or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?] This is but the same with the former; and indeed this whole verse is but a saying of that plainly which in the foregoing verse he had said figuratively.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Either to himself or others, but much hurt; which…
Either to himself or others, but much hurt; which is implied by the contrary, as is usual.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Should he reason with unprofitable talk?.... That is, the…
Should he reason with unprofitable talk?.... That is, the wise man, such a man as Job; does it become him to talk such idle stuff? that which is false, and foolish, and frothy, that does not minister grace to the hearer, and is not for the use of edifying; as whatever is untrue, unwise, vain, and empty, must be useless and answer no good end; nothing is profitable but what tends to increase solid wisdom and spiritual knowledge, and to exercise grace, and influence an holy life; wherefore what are profitable to the souls of men are the doctrines of the word of God, and the experiences of the grace of God, communicated by his people one to another; and nothing but these, or what agrees with them, should come out of the mouth of a wise and good man; nor can such an one expect to convince men of their errors, or reprove them for their sins with success, who deals in words of no profit:
or with speeches wherewith he can do no good? but may do a great deal of hurt both to himself and others; but the same thing is here signified in different words,
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 3. Should he reason with unprofitable talk?] Should…
Verse 3. Should he reason with unprofitable talk?] Should a man talk disrespectfully of his Maker, or speak to him without reverence? and should he suppose that he has proved any thing, when he has uttered words of little meaning, and used sound instead of sense?
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Job 15:3. Should he reason with unprofitable talk? —…
Job 15:3. Should he reason with unprofitable talk? — Of what consequence are all his arguments? Do they carry any weight with them? Do they convince and satisfy those with whom he contends? No: they are no better than unprofitable talk. With speeches wherewith he can do no good? — Either to himself or others, but will do much hurt.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Should he reason with unprofitable talk? - It does…
Should he reason with unprofitable talk? - It does not become a man professing to be wise to make use of words that are nothing to the purpose. The sense is, that what Job said amounted to just nothing.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Equal. God, who is far above thee. Hebrew, "Will…
Equal. God, who is far above thee. Hebrew, "Will he (the wise) argue with less words, or with speeches which are nothing to the purpose?" (Calmet)
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 3. Should he reason] Or, will he reason, or…
3. Should he reason] Or, will he reason, or better, reasoning with unprofitable talk. The verse is subordinate to the last, carrying out its idea.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (3) Should he reason with unprofitable talk?—Nay, his arguments,…
(3) Should he reason with unprofitable talk?—Nay, his arguments, though pretentious and apparently recondite, are unprofitable, and can do no good.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Should he reason with unprofitable talk! Such, Eliphaz implies,…
Should he reason with unprofitable talk! Such, Eliphaz implies, had been Job"s talk, altogether idle and unprofitable. A wise man should have abstained from such profitless arguments. They were speeches wherewith he could do no good.
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