Job 15:4
Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God.
Job 15:4 in other translations
| BSB | But you even undermine the fear of God and hinder meditation before Him. |
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| WEB | Yes, you do away with fear, and hinder devotion before God. |
| ASV | Yea, thou doest away with fear, And hinderest devotion before God. |
| YLT | Yea, thou dost make reverence void, And dost diminish meditation before God. |
| DARBY | Yea, thou makest piety of none effect, and restrainest meditation before God. |
| BBE | Truly, you make the fear of God without effect, so that the time of quiet worship before God is made less by your outcry. |
| Webster | Yes, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God. |
What does Job 15:4 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 15:1-16
Eliphaz begins a second attack upon Job, instead of being softened by his complaints. He unjustly charges Job with casting off the fear of God, and all regard to him, and restraining prayer. See in what religion is summed up, fearing God, and praying to him; the former the most needful principle, the latter the most needful practice. Eliphaz charges Job with self-conceit. He charges him with contempt of the counsels…
Job 15:4 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Job 15:4
- Romans 3:31
Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.
- Psalms 36:1-3
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David the servant of the Lord. The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart, that there is no fear of God before his eyes. For he flattereth himself in his own eyes, until his iniquity be found to be hateful. The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he hath left off to be wise, and to do good.
- Job 6:14
To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.
- 1 Chronicles 10:13-14
So Saul died for his transgression which he committed against the Lord, even against the word of the Lord, which he kept not, and also for asking counsel of one that had a familiar spirit, to enquire of it; And enquired not of the Lord: therefore he slew him, and turned the kingdom unto David the son of Jesse.
- Galatians 2:21
I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.
- Psalms 119:126
It is time for thee, Lord, to work: for they have made void thy law.
- Job 5:8
I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:
- Amos 6:10
And a man’s uncle shall take him up, and he that burneth him, to bring out the bones out of the house, and shall say unto him that is by the sides of the house, Is there yet any with thee? and he shall say, No. Then shall he say, Hold thy tongue: for we may not make mention of the name of the Lord.
- Job 4:5-6
But now it is come upon thee, and thou faintest; it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled. Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?
- Luke 18:1
And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint;
- Zephaniah 1:6
And them that are turned back from the Lord; and those that have not sought the Lord, nor enquired for him.
- Job 27:10
Will he delight himself in the Almighty? will he always call upon God?
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Context
- Job 15:3
Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?
- Job 15:4
Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God.
- Job 15:5
For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.
Job 15:4 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Tú también disipas el temor, y menoscabas la oración delante de Dios. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Certes tu détruis la crainte de Dieu, et tu restreins la méditation devant ✶Dieu. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Ja, du vernichtest die Gottesfurcht und schmälerst die Andacht vor Gott. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Quantum in te est, evacuasti timorem, et tulisti preces coram Deo. |