“Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?”
"Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?" Eliphaz directly attacks Job's claim to wisdom. The "windy knowledge" and "east wind" suggest that Job's arguments are all bluster and emptiness, lacking substance. Eliphaz implies that Job's verbosity masks the absence of genuine insight. This verse establishes the friends' determination to discredit Job's intellectual standing.
Church Fathers on Job 15:2
Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said, Should a wise man answer as if speaking into the wind, and fill his belly with burning? We have already said frequently that blessed Job bears a type of the Holy Church universal, and that his friends bear the likeness of heretics, who as it were on the plea of defence of the Lord find occasion of foolish talking, and let loose insulting words against good men; to whom all is displeasing that is thought by the faithful, as though…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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