New Living Translation
Job 15:4
4Have you no fear of God, no reverence for him?
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 King James Version (NKJV)Yes, you cast off fear, And restrain prayer before God.
Context of Job 15:4
2“A wise man wouldn’t answer with such empty talk! You are nothing but a windbag. 3The wise don’t engage in empty chatter. What good are such words? Have you no fear of God, no reverence for him? 5Your sins are telling your mouth what to say. Your words are based on clever deception. 6Your own mouth condemns you, not I. Your own lips testify against you.
Read all of Job 15Job 15:4 word by word
אַף־אַ֭תָּה תָּפֵ֣ר יִרְאָ֑ה וְתִגְרַ֥ע שִׂ֝יחָ֗ה לִפְנֵי־אֵֽל׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 15:4
- Job 4:5But now when trouble strikes, you lose heart. You are terrified when it touches you.
- Job 6:14“One should be kind to a fainting friend, but you accuse me without any fear of the Almighty.
- Psalms 36:1Sin whispers to the wicked, deep within their hearts. They have no fear of God at all.
- Psalms 119:126Lord, it is time for you to act, for these evil people have violated your instructions.
- Zephaniah 1:6And I will destroy those who used to worship me but now no longer do. They no longer ask for the Lord’s guidance or seek my blessings.”
- Romans 3:31Well then, if we emphasize faith, does this mean that we can forget about the law? Of course not! In fact, only when we have faith do we truly fulfill the law.
- Galatians 2:21I do not treat the grace of God as meaningless. For if keeping the law could make us right with God, then there was no need for Christ to die.
- Job 5:8“If I were you, I would go to God and present my case to him.
- Job 27:10Can they take delight in the Almighty? Can they call to God at any time?
- 1 Chronicles 10:13So Saul died because he was unfaithful to the Lord. He failed to obey the Lord’s command, and he even consulted a medium
- Hosea 7:14They do not cry out to me with sincere hearts. Instead, they sit on their couches and wail. They cut themselves, begging foreign gods for grain and new wine, and they turn away from me.
- Amos 6:10And when a relative who is responsible to dispose of the dead goes into the house to carry out the bodies, he will ask the last survivor, “Is anyone else with you?” When the person begins to swear, “No, by . . . ,” he will interrupt and say, “Stop! Don’t even mention the name of the Lord.”)
- Luke 18:1One day Jesus told his disciples a story to show that they should always pray and never give up.
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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