Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

Yea, thou dost make reverence void, And dost diminish meditation before God.

New American Standard Bible

“Indeed, you do away with reverence
And hinder meditation before God.

King James Version

Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God.

Holman Bible

But you even undermine the fear of God
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.

Amplified


“Indeed, you are doing away with fear,
And you are diminishing meditation 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.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
יראה 
Yir'ah 
Usage: 45

גּרע 
Gara` 
Usage: 22

שׂיחה 
Siychah 
Usage: 3

פּנים 
Paniym 
Usage: 2119

Context Readings

Eliphaz's Second Response To Job

3 To reason with a word not useful? And speeches -- no profit in them? 4 Yea, thou dost make reverence void, And dost diminish meditation before God. 5 For thy mouth teacheth thine iniquity, And thou chooseth the tongue of the subtile.


Cross References

1 Chronicles 10:13-14

And Saul dieth because of his trespass that he trespassed against Jehovah, against the word of Jehovah that he kept not, and also for asking at a familiar spirit -- to inquire, --

Job 4:5-6

But now, it cometh in unto thee, And thou art weary; It striketh unto thee, and thou art troubled.

Job 5:8

Yet I -- I inquire for God, And for God I give my word,

Job 6:14

To a despiser of his friends is shame, And the fear of the Mighty he forsaketh.

Job 27:10

On the Mighty doth he delight himself? Call God at all times?

Psalm 36:1-3

To the Overseer. -- By a servant of Jehovah, by David. The transgression of the wicked Is affirming within my heart, 'Fear of God is not before his eyes,

Psalm 119:126

Time for Jehovah to work! they have made void Thy law.

Hosea 7:14

And have not cried unto Me with their heart, but howl on their beds, For corn and new wine they assemble themselves, They turn aside against Me.

Amos 6:10

And lifted him up hath his loved one, 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 yet with thee?' And he said, 'None,' then he said, 'Hush! Save to make mention of the name of Jehovah.'

Zephaniah 1:6

And those removing from after Jehovah, And who have not sought Jehovah, nor besought Him.

Luke 18:1

And he spake also a simile to them, that it behoveth us always to pray, and not to faint,

Romans 3:31

Law then do we make useless through the faith? let it not be! yea, we do establish law.

Galatians 2:21

I do not make void the grace of God, for if righteousness be through law -- then Christ died in vain.

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