Shall windy words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?
Do you think that you can reprove words, when the speech of a despairing man is wind?
“Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?
and sound speech that cannot be condemned, so that an opponent may be put to shame, having nothing evil to say about us.
They must be silenced, since they are upsetting whole families by teaching for shameful gain what they ought not to teach.
And no one was able to answer him a word, nor from that day did anyone dare to ask him any more questions.
He burned with anger also at Job's three friends because they had found no answer, although they had declared Job to be in the wrong. Now Elihu had waited to speak to Job because they were older than he. And when Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of these three men, he burned with anger. And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said: “I am young in years, and you are aged; therefore I was timid and afraid to declare my opinion to you.
I hear censure that insults me, and out of my understanding a spirit answers me.
“How long will you say these things, and the words of your mouth be a great wind?
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