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Job Chapter 15 verse 4 Holy Bible

ASV Job 15:4

Yea, thou doest away with fear, And hinderest devotion before God.
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BBE Job 15:4

Truly, you make the fear of God without effect, so that the time of quiet worship before God is made less by your outcry.
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DARBY Job 15:4

Yea, thou makest piety of none effect, and restrainest meditation before ùGod.
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KJV Job 15:4

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

Yes, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God.
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WEB Job 15:4

Yes, you do away with fear, And hinder devotion before God.
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YLT Job 15:4

Yea, thou dost make reverence void, And dost diminish meditation before God.
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 4. - Yea, thou castest off fear. To Eliphaz, Job's words - his bold expostulations (Job 13:3, 15, 22, etc.), his declarations that he knows he will be justified (Job 13:8), and that God will be his Salvation (Job 13:16) - seem to imply that he has cast off altogether the fear of God, and is entirely devoid of reverence. Some of his expressions certainly seem over-bold; but, on the other hand, his sense of God's purity, perfectness, and transcendent power is continually manifest, and should have saved him from the rude reproach here launched against him (comp. Job 9:1-13; Job 12:24 25; 13:11, 21, etc.). And restrainest prayer before God; rather, and hinderest devout meditation before God. Eliphaz means that Job expresses himself in a way so cf. fensive to devout souls, that he disturbs their minds and prevents them from indulging in those pious meditations on the Divine goodness which would otherwise occupy them (comp. Psalm 119:97). Thus, according to Eliphaz, Job is not only irreligious himself, but the cause of irreligion in others.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(4) Yea, thou castest off fear.--The tendency also of Job has been to encourage a kind of fatalism (e.g., Job 12:16-25), and therefore to check the offering of prayer to God, besides setting an example which, if followed, as from Job's position it was likely to be, would lead to murmuring and blasphemy.