King James Version
Job 15:2 in the King James Version says “Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind? vain: Heb. knowledge of wind” — study this verse from Job chapter 15 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind? vain: Heb. knowledge of wind”
Job 15:2 · KJV
Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,
Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind? vain: Heb. knowledge of wind
Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?
Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God. castest: Heb. makest void prayer: or, speech
KJV Study — Public Domain
“utter”
H6030properly, to eye or (generally) to heed, i.e., pay attention; by implication, to respond; by extension to begin to speak; specifically to sing, shout,
“vain”
H7307wind; by resemblance breath, i.e., a sensible (or even violent) exhalation; figuratively, life, anger, unsubstantiality; by extension, a region of the
“and fill”
H4390to fill or (intransitively) be full of, in a wide application (literally and figuratively)
“with the east wind”
H6921the fore or front part; hence (by orientation) the east (often adverbially, eastward, for brevity the east wind)
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