Should a wise man make answer with vain knowledge, And fill himself with the east wind?
“Does a wise man answer with empty counsel or fill his belly with the hot east wind?
Doth a wise man answer with vain knowledge? And fill with an east wind his belly?
Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind,
Job — Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament).
J O B CHAP. XV. Perhaps Job was so clear, and so well satisfied, in the goodness of his own cause, that he thought, if he had not convinced, yet he had at least silenced all his three friends; but, it seems he had not: in this chapter they begin…