Job 15 · Verse 4

Job 15:4

Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God.
Job 15:4, King James Version

Job 15:4 in other translations

BSBBut you even undermine the fear of God and hinder meditation before Him.
WEBYes, you do away with fear, and hinder devotion before God.
ASVYea, thou doest away with fear, And hinderest devotion before God.
YLTYea, thou dost make reverence void, And dost diminish meditation before God.
DARBYYea, thou makest piety of none effect, and restrainest meditation before God.
BBETruly, you make the fear of God without effect, so that the time of quiet worship before God is made less by your outcry.
WebsterYes, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God.

What does Job 15:4 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
4. fear--reverence for God (Job 4:6; Psa 2:11). prayer--meditation, in Psa 104:34; so devotion. If thy views were right, reasons Eliphaz, that God disregards the afflictions of the righteous and makes the wicked to prosper, all devotion would be at an end.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 4 Thou castest off fear - Thou hast no reverence for God. And restrainest prayer - Instead of humbling thyself, and making supplication to thy Judge, thou spendest thy time in arraigning his providence and justifying thyself. When a man has any doubts whether he has grieved God's Spirit, and his mind feels troubled, it is much better for him to go immediately to God, and ask forgiveness, than spend any time in finding excuses for his conduct, or laboring to divest it of its seeming obliquity. Restraining or suppressing prayer, in order to find excuses or palliations for infirmities, indiscretions, or improprieties of any kind, which appear to trench on the sacred limits of morality and godliness, may be to a man the worst of evils: humiliation and prayer for mercy and pardon can never be out of their place to any soul of man who, surrounded with evils, is ever liable to offend.

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…

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Job 15:4 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

אַף\־'af-alsoH637
אַ֭תָּה'A.tahyouH859
תָּפֵ֣רta.Feryou annulH6565
יִרְאָ֑הyir.'AhfearH3374
וְתִגְרַ֥עve.tig.Ra'so you may diminishH1639
שִׂ֝יחָ֗הSi.ChahmeditationH7881
לִפְנֵי\־lif.nei-<to> beforeH6440
אֵֽל\׃'ElGodH410

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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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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
castest off. Heb. makest void.
4:5,6; 6:14; Ps 36:1-3; 119:126; Zep 1:6; Ro 3:31; Ga 2:21
restrainest.
5:8; 27:10; 1Ch 10:13,14; Ho 7:14; Am 6:10; Lu 18:1
prayer. or, speech.

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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.

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Job 15:4 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Tú también disipas el temor, y menoscabas la oración delante de Dios.
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.