Job 15:2
Strong's Lexicon
“Does a wise
הֶֽחָכָ֗ם (he·ḥā·ḵām)
Article | Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2450: 1) wise, wise (man) 1a) skilful (in technical work) 1b) wise (in administration) 1c) shrewd, crafty, cunning, wily, subtle 1d) learned, shrewd (class of men) 1e) prudent 1f) wise (ethically and religiously)

man answer
יַעֲנֶ֥ה (ya·‘ă·neh)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6030: 1) to answer, respond, testify, speak, shout 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to answer, respond to 1a2) to testify, respond as a witness 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to make answer 1b2) to be answered, receive answer 2) (Qal) to sing, utter tunefully 3) (Qal) to dwell

with empty
ר֑וּחַ (rū·aḥ)
Noun - common singular
Strong's Hebrew 7307: 1) wind, breath, mind, spirit 1a) breath 1b) wind 1b1) of heaven 1b2) quarter (of wind), side 1b3) breath of air 1b4) air, gas 1b5) vain, empty thing 1c) spirit (as that which breathes quickly in animation or agitation) 1c1) spirit, animation, vivacity, vigour 1c2) courage 1c3) temper, anger 1c4) impatience, patience 1c5) spirit, disposition (as troubled, bitter, discontented) 1c6) disposition (of various kinds), unaccountable or uncontrollable impulse 1c7) prophetic spirit 1d) spirit (of the living, breathing being in man and animals) 1d1) as gift, preserved by God, God's spirit, departing at death, disembodied being 1e) spirit (as seat of emotion) 1e1) desire 1e2) sorrow, trouble 1f) spirit 1f1) as seat or organ of mental acts 1f2) rarely of the will 1f3) as seat especially of moral character 1g) Spirit of God, the third person of the triune God, the Holy Spirit, coequal, coeternal with the Father and the Son 1g1) as inspiring ecstatic state of prophecy 1g2) as impelling prophet to utter instruction or warning 1g3) imparting warlike energy and executive and administrative power 1g4) as endowing men with various gifts 1g5) as energy of life 1g6) as manifest in the Shekinah glory 1g7) never referred to as a depersonalised force

counsel
דַֽעַת־ (ḏa·‘aṯ-)
Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 1847: 1) knowledge 1a) knowledge, perception, skill 1b) discernment, understanding, wisdom

or fill
וִֽימַלֵּ֖א (wî·mal·lê)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Conjunctive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4390: 1) to fill, be full 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to be full 1a1a) fulness, abundance (participle) 1a1b) to be full, be accomplished, be ended 1a2) to consecrate, fill the hand 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to be filled, be armed, be satisfied 1b2) to be accomplished, be ended 1c) (Piel) 1c1) to fill 1c2) to satisfy 1c3) to fulfil, accomplish, complete 1c4) to confirm 1d) (Pual) to be filled 1e) (Hithpael) to mass themselves against

his belly
בִּטְנֽוֹ׃ (biṭ·nōw)
Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 990: 1) belly, womb, body 1a) belly, abdomen 1a1) as seat of hunger 1a2) as seat of mental faculties 1a3) of depth of Sheol (fig.) 1b) womb

with the hot east wind ?
קָדִ֣ים (qā·ḏîm)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6921: 1) east, east wind 1a) east (of direction) 1b) east wind

Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
“Does a wise man answer with empty counsel or fill his belly with the hot east wind?

Young's Literal Translation
Doth a wise man answer [with] vain knowledge? And fill [with] an east wind his belly?

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Does a wise man answer with empty counselor fill himself with  the hot east wind ?

New American Standard Bible
"Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge And fill himself with the east wind?

King James Bible
Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?
Parallel Verses
New International Version
"Would a wise person answer with empty notions or fill their belly with the hot east wind?

New Living Translation
"A wise man wouldn't answer with such empty talk! You are nothing but a windbag.

English Standard Version
“Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?

New American Standard Bible
"Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge And fill himself with the east wind?

King James Bible
Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Does a wise man answer with empty counsel or fill himself with the hot east wind?

International Standard Version
"Should a wise person respond with knowledge based on wind? Should he fill his stomach with a wind storm from the east?

NET Bible
"Does a wise man answer with blustery knowledge, or fill his belly with the east wind?

American Standard Version
Should a wise man make answer with vain knowledge, And fill himself with the east wind?

English Revised Version
Should a wise man make answer with vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?

Young's Literal Translation
Doth a wise man answer with vain knowledge? And fill with an east wind his belly?
















Cross References
Job 6:26
Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?

Job 11:2
Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should a man full of talk be justified?

Job 15:1
Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,

Job 15:3
Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?

Job 1:1
There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.

Job 14:22
But his flesh upon him shall have pain, and his soul within him shall mourn.

Job 14:21
His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them.

Job 15:4
Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God.

Job 15:5
For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.
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