Parallel Verses
Amplified
“Indeed, you are doing away with fear,
And you are diminishing meditation before God.
New American Standard Bible
And hinder meditation before God.
King James Version
Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God.
Holman Bible
and hinder meditation before Him.
International Standard Version
Yet you dispense with fear of God and hinder meditations before God.
A Conservative Version
Yea, thou do away with fear, and hinder devotion before God.
American Standard Version
Yea, thou doest away with fear, And hinderest devotion before God.
Bible in Basic English
Truly, you make the fear of God without effect, so that the time of quiet worship before God is made less by your outcry.
Darby Translation
Yea, thou makest piety of none effect, and restrainest meditation before God.
Julia Smith Translation
Also thou wilt bring to nought, fear, and thou wilt withhold meditation before God.
King James 2000
Yea, you cast off fear, and restrain prayer before God.
Lexham Expanded Bible
"{What is worse}, you yourself are doing away with fear, and you are lessening meditation {before} God.
Modern King James verseion
Yea, you do away with fear, and take away prayer before God.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
As for shame, thou hast set it aside - else wouldest thou not make so many words before God.
NET Bible
But you even break off piety, and hinder meditation before God.
New Heart English Bible
Yes, you do away with fear, and hinder devotion before God.
The Emphasized Bible
But, thou, wouldst take away reverence, and wouldst attain unto meditation before GOD.
Webster
Yes, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God.
World English Bible
Yes, you do away with fear, and hinder devotion before God.
Youngs Literal Translation
Yea, thou dost make reverence void, And dost diminish meditation before God.
Interlinear
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 15:4
Verse Info
Context Readings
Eliphaz's Second Response To Job
3
“Should he rebuke and argue with useless talk?
Or with words in which there is no benefit?
“Indeed, you are doing away with fear,
And you are diminishing meditation before God.
“For your guilt teaches your mouth,
And you choose [to speak] the language of the crafty and cunning.
Names
Cross References
1 Chronicles 10:13-14
So Saul died for his
Job 4:5-6
“But now
It touches you, and you are horrified.
Job 5:8
“As for me, I would seek God and inquire of Him,
And I would commit my cause to God;
Job 6:14
“For the despairing man there should be kindness from his friend;
So that he does not
Job 27:10
“Will he take delight in the Almighty?
Will he call on God at all times?
Psalm 36:1-3
There is no fear (dread) of God before his eyes.
Psalm 119:126
It is time for the Lord to act;
They have broken Your law.
Hosea 7:14
They do not cry out to Me from their heart
When they wail on their beds [in unbelieving despair];
For the sake of grain and new wine they
They rebel against Me.
Amos 6:10
Then one’s uncle, or his undertaker, shall come to bring the [disease-infected] body out of the house, [to cremate it], and he will say to another in the farthest part of the house, “Is there anyone else with you?” And that one will say, “No one.” Then he will respond, “Hush! Keep quiet! For the name of the Lord is not to be mentioned [even casually, for fear that we might invoke even more punishment].”
Zephaniah 1:6
And those who have turned back from following the Lord,
And those who have not sought the Lord [as their most important need] or inquired of Him.”
Luke 18:1
Now Jesus was telling the disciples a parable to make the point that at all times they ought to pray and not give up and lose heart,
Romans 3:31
Do we then nullify the Law by this faith [making the Law of no effect, overthrowing it]? Certainly not! On the contrary, we confirm and establish and uphold the Law [since it convicts us all of sin, pointing to the need for salvation].
Galatians 2:21
I do not ignore or nullify the [gracious gift of the] grace of God [His amazing, unmerited favor], for if righteousness comes through [observing] the Law, then Christ died needlessly. [His suffering and death would have had no purpose whatsoever.]”