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.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God.
In Context
3Will he make arguments with words in which is no profit, and with sayings which have no value?
5For your mouth is guided by your sin, and you have taken the tongue of the false for yourself.
Cross References
1 Chronicles 10:13So death came to Saul because of the sin which he did against the Lord, that is, because of the word of the Lord which he kept not; and because he went for directions to one who had an evil spirit,
Job 5:8But as for me, I would make my prayer to God, and I would put my cause before him:
Job 27:10Will he take delight in the Ruler of all, and make his prayer to God at all times?
Psalms 119:126It is time, O Lord, for you to let your work be seen; for they have made your law without effect.
Amos 6:10And when a man's relation, even the one who is responsible for burning his body, lifting him up to take his bones out of the house, says to him who is in the inmost part of the house, Is there still anyone with you? and he says, No; then he will say, Keep quiet, for the name of the Lord may not be named.
Luke 18:1And he made a story for them, the point of which was that men were to go on making prayer and not get tired;
Matthew Henry on Job 15:2-17
Second Address of Eliphaz. ( b. c. 1520.) 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… Read the whole commentary →