Job 15:3 Meaning and Explanation
“Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?”
King James Version (KJV)
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Read Full Chapter →Eliphaz dismisses Job's defense as useless talk that accomplishes nothing.
What Does Job 15:3 Mean?
Continuing the thought, Eliphaz charges that Job's reasoning is unprofitable, words that yield no gain and do no good. He treats Job's long replies as so much wasted breath, arguments that cannot stand and ought never to have been spoken.
There is irony here, for Eliphaz is confident that his own speech profits while Job's does not. The verse exposes how quickly we measure another's words as worthless while assuming our own carry weight. Christ, by contrast, valued the cry of the afflicted and the prayer of the desperate. Before God no honest groan is unprofitable, even when a human listener can find no use in it.
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What does Job 15:3 mean?
Eliphaz dismisses Job's defense as useless talk that accomplishes nothing.