New King James Version
Job 15:4
4Yes, you cast off fear, And restrain prayer before God.
Job 15:4 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God.
- New International Version (NIV)But you even undermine piety and hinder devotion to God.
- English Standard Version (ESV)But you are doing away with the fear of God and hindering meditation before God.
- New Living Translation (NLT)Have you no fear of God, no reverence for him?
Context of Job 15:4
2“Should a wise man answer with empty knowledge, And fill himself with the east wind? 3Should he reason with unprofitable talk, Or by speeches with which he can do no good? Yes, you cast off fear, And restrain prayer before God. 5For your iniquity teaches your mouth, And you choose the tongue of the crafty. 6Your own mouth condemns you, and not I; Yes, your own lips testify against you.
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אַף־אַ֭תָּה תָּפֵ֣ר יִרְאָ֑ה וְתִגְרַ֥ע שִׂ֝יחָ֗ה לִפְנֵי־אֵֽל׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 15:4
- Job 4:5But now it comes upon you, and you are weary; It touches you, and you are troubled.
- Job 6:14“To him who is afflicted, kindness should be shown by his friend, Even though he forsakes the fear of the Almighty.
- Psalms 36:1An oracle within my heart concerning the transgression of the wicked: There is no fear of God before his eyes.
- Psalms 119:126It is time for You to act, O Lord, For they have regarded Your law as void.
- Zephaniah 1:6Those who have turned back from following the Lord, And have not sought the Lord, nor inquired of Him.”
- Romans 3:31Do we then make void the law through faith? Certainly not! On the contrary, we establish the law.
- Galatians 2:21I do not set aside the grace of God; for if righteousness comes through the law, then Christ died in vain.”
- Job 5:8“But as for me, I would seek God, And to God I would commit my cause—
- Job 27:10Will he delight himself in the Almighty? Will he always call on God?
- 1 Chronicles 10:13So Saul died for his unfaithfulness which he had committed against the Lord, because he did not keep the word of the Lord, and also because he consulted a medium for guidance.
- Hosea 7:14They did not cry out to Me with their heart When they wailed upon their beds. “They assemble together for grain and new wine, They rebel against Me;
- Amos 6:10And when a relative of the dead, with one who will burn the bodies, picks up the bodies to take them out of the house, he will say to one inside the house, “Are there any more with you?” Then someone will say, “None.” And he will say, “Hold your tongue! For we dare not mention the name of the Lord.”
- Luke 18:1Then He spoke a parable to them, that men always ought to pray and not lose heart,
Commentaries on Job 15:4
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 4Thou 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…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 4Yea, thou castest off fear - Margin, Makest void. Fear here means the fear or reverence of God; and the idea is, that Job had not maintained a proper veneration or respect for his Maker in his argument. He had defended principles and made assertions which implied great disrespect for the Deity. If those doctrines were true; if he was right in his views about God, then he was not a being who could be reverenced. No confidence could be placed in his…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 44. 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.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 15
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
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