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# Should a wise man answer with useless knowledge and fill himself with the east wind?

Eliphaz uses this rhetorical question to rebuke Job. This can be written as a statement. Alternate translation: "A wise man should not answer with useless knowledge nor fill himself with the east wind." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-rquestion]])

# fill himself with the east wind

The wind represents emptiness. This phrase speaks of a person speaking empty and meaningless words as if that person were full of the wind. Alternate translation: "fill himself with empty words" or "only have meaningless words" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]])

# the east wind

"hot air" or "the desert wind"
Remainder of books formated per verse 2017-12-12 06:13:24 +00:00			`# Should a wise man answer with useless knowledge and fill himself with the east wind?`

Change to new format As per email from Chris Jarka. 2019-02-11 22:07:05 +00:00			`Eliphaz uses this rhetorical question to rebuke Job. This can be written as a statement. Alternate translation: "A wise man should not answer with useless knowledge nor fill himself with the east wind." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-rquestion]])`
Remainder of books formated per verse 2017-12-12 06:13:24 +00:00
			`# fill himself with the east wind`

Change to new format As per email from Chris Jarka. 2019-02-11 22:07:05 +00:00			`The wind represents emptiness. This phrase speaks of a person speaking empty and meaningless words as if that person were full of the wind. Alternate translation: "fill himself with empty words" or "only have meaningless words" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]])`
Remainder of books formated per verse 2017-12-12 06:13:24 +00:00
			`# the east wind`

			`"hot air" or "the desert wind"`