Job 15:4
Indeed, you make reverence void, and diminish meditation before God.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God.
In Context
3To reason with a word not useful? And speeches—no profit in them?
5For your mouth teaches your iniquity, || And you choose the tongue of the cunning.
Cross References
1 Chronicles 10:13And Saul dies because of his trespass that he trespassed against YHWH, against the word of YHWH that he did not keep, and also for asking to inquire of a familiar spirit;
Job 5:8Yet I inquire for God, || And for God I give my word,
Job 27:10Does he delight himself on the Mighty? Call God at all times?
Psalms 119:126Time for YHWH to work! They have made Your law void.
Amos 6:10And his loved one has lifted him up, even his burner, || To bring forth the bones from the house, || And he said to him who [is] in the sides of the house, || “Is there [any] yet with you?” And he said, “None,” || Then he said, “Hush! We must not make mention of the Name of YHWH.”
Luke 18:1And He also spoke an allegory to them, that it is always necessary to pray and not to 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 →