Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
Should a wise man utter vain knowledge - Or rather, Should a wise man utter the science of wind? A science without solidity or certainty.
And fill his belly with the east wind? - beten , which we translate belly, is used to signify any part of the cavity of the body, whether the region of the thorax or abdomen; here it evidently refers to the lungs, and may include the cheeks and fauces. The east wind, kadim , is a very stormy wind in the Levant, or the eastern part of the Mediterranean Sea, supposed to be the same with that called by the Greeks , euroclydon , the east storm, mentioned Acts 27:14. Eliphaz, by these words, seems to intimate that Job' s speech was a perfect storm or tempest of words.
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