Matthew Poole and continuators on Job 15:2

2. Should a wise man utter vain knowledge , and fill his belly with the east-wind !

Such as thou seemest and pretendest to be.

i. e. Empty words without any sense or solidity in them.

i. e. Satisfie his own Mind and Conscience, which being secret is compared to the Inwards of the Belly; as Chap. 32. 19. Prov. 20. 27. & 22. 18.

i. e. With Discourses which are not only flashy and unprofitable, and without any weight, but also boisterous and pernicious both to himself and others; as the East-wind was in those parts, Gen. 41. 6. Exod. 10. 13. Hos. 12. 1.

Marginal references: Heb. knowledge of wind.