Job 15:4
to such an extent that, within yourself, you have expelled reverence and have taken away prayers from the presence of God.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God.
In Context
3You rebuke with words he who is not equal to you, and you speak what is not expedient for you,
5For your iniquity has mislead your mouth, and you imitate the tongue of blasphemers.
Cross References
1 Chronicles 10:13Thus did Saul die for his iniquities, because he betrayed the commandment of the Lord which he had instructed, and did not keep it. And moreover, he even consulted a woman diviner;
Job 5:8Therefore, because of this, I will beg the Lord, and place my eloquence before God.
Job 27:10Or will he take delight in the Almighty and call upon God at all times?
Amos 6:10And his closest relative will steal him away and will burn him, so that he may carry the bones out of the house. And he will say to him that is in the inner most rooms of the house, “Now is there any left that still belongs to you?”
Luke 18:1Now he also told them a parable, that we should continually pray and not cease,
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 →