"Does a wise man answer with empty counsel or fill his belly with the hot east wind?
Cross References
Job 6:26Do you intend to correct my words, and treat as wind my cry of despair?
Job 11:2"Should this stream of words go unanswered and such a speaker be vindicated?
Job 15:1Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:
Job 15:3Should he argue with useless words or speeches that serve no purpose?
Treasury of Scripture
Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?
a wise man
Job 11:2,3
Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should a man full of talk be justified? …
Job 13:2
What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you.
James 3:13
Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.
vain knowledge.
Job 6:26
Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?
Job 8:2
How long wilt thou speak these things? and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind?
fill
Hosea 12:1
Ephraim feedeth on wind, and followeth after the east wind: he daily increaseth lies and desolation; and they do make a covenant with the Assyrians, and oil is carried into Egypt.
