Job 15:4New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— “Indeed, you do away with reverence And hinder meditation before God.
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God.
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— Yea, thou doest away with fear, and restrainest devotion before God.
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— Yea, thou doest away with fear, And hinderest devotion before God.
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— Yes, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God.
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— Yea, thou makest piety of none effect, and restrainest meditation before *God.
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— But, thou, wouldst take away reverence, and wouldst attain unto meditation before GOD.
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— Yea, thou dost make reverence void, And dost diminish meditation before God.
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— As much as is in thee, thou hast made void fear, and hast taken away prayers from before God.
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— Surely thou hast cast off feare, and restrainest prayer before God.
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— Yea thou castest off feare, and restrainest prayer before God.
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— Yea, you also are discarding reverence, and talk too much in the presence of God.
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— Hast not thou moreover cast off fear, and accomplished such words before the Lord?
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before El. |
Yea,
x637 (0637) Complementאַף'aph{af}
A primitive particle; meaning accession (used as an adverb or conjugation); also or yea; adversatively though.
thou
x859 (0859) Complementאַתָּה'attah{at-taw'}
A primitive pronoun of the second person; thou and thee, or (plural) ye and you.
castest off
6565 {6565} Primeפָּרַרparar{paw-rar'}
A primitive root; to break up (usually figuratively, that is, to violate, frustrate).
z8686 <8686> Grammar
Stem - Hiphil (See H8818) Mood - Imperfect (See H8811) Count - 4046
fear,
3374 {3374} Primeיִרְאָהyir'ah{yir-aw'}
Feminine of H3373; fear (also used as infinitive); morally reverence.
and restrainest
1639 {1639} Primeגָּרַעgara`{gaw-rah'}
A primitive root; to scrape off; by implication to shave, remove, lessen or withhold.
z8799 <8799> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851) Mood - Imperfect (See H8811) Count - 19885
prayer
7881 {7881} Primeשִׂיחָהsiychah{see-khaw'}
Feminine of H7879; reflection; by extension devotion.
before
6440 {6440} Primeפָּנִיםpaniym{paw-neem'}
Plural (but always used as a singular) of an unused noun ( פָּנֶה paneh, {paw-neh'}; from H6437); the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposition ( before, etc.).
´Ël
אֵל.
410 {0410} Primeאֵל'el{ale}
Shortened from H0352; strength; as adjective mighty; especially the Almighty (but used also of any deity). |
Job 15:4
_ _ fear — reverence for God (Job 4:6; Psalms 2:11).
_ _ prayer — meditation, in Psalms 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. |
Job 15:4
Castest off — Heb. thou makes void fear; the fear of God, piety and religion, by thy unworthy speeches of God, and by those false and pernicious principles, that God makes no difference between good and bad in the course of his providence, but equally prospers or afflicts both: thou dost that which tends to the subversion of the fear and worship of God. Restrainest prayer — Thou dost by thy words and principles, as far as in thee lies, banish prayer out of the world, by making it useless and unprofitable to men. |
Job 15:4
Yea, thou castest off (c) fear, and restrainest prayer before God.
(c) He charges Job as though his talk caused men to cast off the fear of God and prayer. |
- castest off:
- Heb. makest void,
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?
Job 6:14 To him that is afflicted pity [should be shewed] from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.
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. ... The words of his mouth [are] iniquity and deceit: he hath left off to be wise, [and] to do good.
Psalms 119:126 [It is] time for [thee], LORD, to work: [for] they have made void thy law.
Zephaniah 1:6 And them that are turned back from the LORD; and [those] that have not sought the LORD, nor enquired for him.
Romans 3:31 Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.
Galatians 2:21 I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness [come] by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.
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- restrainest:
Job 5:8 I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:
Job 27:10 Will he delight himself in the Almighty? will he always call upon God?
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.
Hosea 7:14 And they have not cried unto me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds: they assemble themselves for corn and wine, [and] they rebel against me.
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.
Luke 18:1 And he spake a parable unto them [to this end], that men ought always to pray, and not to faint;
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