Job 15:4
Yea, thou makest piety of none effect, and restrainest meditation before God.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God.
In Context
3Reasoning with unprofitable talk, and with speeches which do no good?
5For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou hast chosen the tongue of the crafty.
Cross References
1 Chronicles 10:13And Saul died for his unfaithfulness which he committed against Jehovah, because of the word of Jehovah which he kept not, and also for having inquired of the spirit of Python, asking counsel of it;
Job 5:8But as for me I will seek unto God, and unto God commit my cause;
Job 27:10Doth he delight himself in the Almighty? will he at all times call upon God?
Psalms 119:126It is time for Jehovah to work: they have made void thy law.
Amos 6:10And a man's uncle, and he that should burn him, shall take him up to bring out the bones from the house, and shall say unto him that is in the inner parts of the house, Is there yet [any] with thee? and he shall say, None. And he will say, Silence! for we may not make mention of Jehovah's name.
Luke 18:1And he spoke also a parable to them to the purport that they should always pray and not faint,
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 →