Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
Reproving with words he shall not profit, and speeches will be of no use in them.
New American Standard Bible
Or with words which are not profitable?
King James Version
Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?
Holman Bible
or with words that serve no good purpose?
International Standard Version
Should he engage in unprofitable argument, or give a speech that benefits no one?
A Conservative Version
Should he reason with unprofitable talk, or with speeches with which he can do no good?
American Standard Version
Should he reason with unprofitable talk, Or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?
Amplified
“Should he rebuke and argue with useless talk?
Or with words in which there is no benefit?
Bible in Basic English
Will he make arguments with words in which is no profit, and with sayings which have no value?
Darby Translation
Reasoning with unprofitable talk, and with speeches which do no good?
King James 2000
Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches with which he can do no good?
Lexham Expanded Bible
Should he argue in talk [that] is not profitable or [in] words with which he cannot do good?
Modern King James verseion
Should he reason with talk that is not useful, or with speeches which have no profit?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Thou reprovest with words, that are worth nothing; and speakest the things which can do no good!
NET Bible
Does he argue with useless talk, with words that have no value in them?
New Heart English Bible
Should he reason with unprofitable talk, or with speeches with which he can do no good?
The Emphasized Bible
Disputing with discourse that doth no good, or with speech, wherein is no profit?
Webster
Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches with which he can do no good?
World English Bible
Should he reason with unprofitable talk, or with speeches with which he can do no good?
Youngs Literal Translation
To reason with a word not useful? And speeches -- no profit in them?
Interlinear
Yakach
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 15:3
Verse Info
Context Readings
Eliphaz's Second Response To Job
2 Shall a wise one answer knowledge of wind, and fill his belly with the east wind? 3 Reproving with words he shall not profit, and speeches will be of no use in them. 4 Also thou wilt bring to nought, fear, and thou wilt withhold meditation before God.
Phrases
Cross References
Job 13:4-5
And on the contrary, ye devise falsehood; physicians all of you for nothing.
Job 16:2-3
I heard many like there: comforters of vexation ye all.
Job 26:1-3
And Job will answer and say,
Malachi 3:13-15
Your words were strong against me, said Jehovah. And ye said, What did we speak against thee?
Matthew 12:36-37
And I say to you, That every idle word which men speak, they shill return word for it in the day of judgment.
Colossians 4:6
Your word always in grace, Seasoned with salt, to know how it is fitting for you to answer one another.
1 Timothy 6:4-5
He has been proud, knowing nothing, but sick about questions and disputes of words, of which is envy, strife, slanders, evil conjectures,