KJV King James Version
Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Job 15:4
Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
But you even undermine the fear of God and hinder meditation before Him.
WEB World English Bible
Yes, you do away with fear, and hinder devotion before God.
ASV American Standard Version
Yea, thou doest away with fear, And hinderest devotion before God.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Yea, thou dost make reverence void, And dost diminish meditation before God.
Surrounding context — Job 15
1 Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said,
2 Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?
3 Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?
4 Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God.
5 For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.
6 Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee.
7 [Art] thou the first man [that] was born? or wast thou made before the hills?
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Romans 3:31Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.Job 4:5-6But now it is come upon thee, and thou faintest; it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.1 Chronicles 10:13-14So 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 inquire [of it];Luke 18:1And he spake a parable unto them [to this end], that men ought always to pray, and not to faint;Job 27:10Will he delight himself in the Almighty? will he always call upon God?Psalm 36:1-3To 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.Amos 6:10And 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.Psalm 119:126[It is] time for [thee], LORD, to work: [for] they have made void thy law.Job 6:14To him that is afflicted pity [should be shewed] from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.Galatians 2:21I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness [come] by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.Job 5:8I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:Hosea 7:14And 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.Zephaniah 1:6And them that are turned back from the LORD; and [those] that have not sought the LORD, nor inquired for him.
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