“ Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God. ”
Yea, thou castest off fear - Margin, Makest void. Fear here means the fear or reverence of God; and the idea is, that Job had not maintained a proper veneration or respect for his Maker in his ar...
Yea, thou castest off (c) fear, and restrainest prayer before God. (c) He charges Job as though his talk caused men to cast off the fear of God and prayer.
Job 15:2-19 is a polemic against Job's arrogance and pretence of wisdom. Job's words are empty and violent ( Job 15:2 f.). He does away with all religion ( Job 15:4 ) and breaks the reverential...
fear . reverence. GOD. Hebrew El. App-4.
Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God. Thou castest off fear - Thou hast no reverence for God. And restrainest prayer - Instead of humbling thyself, and making supplication t...
Yea, thou castest off fear, &c.— Truly thou loosest the bonds of religion; thou preventest the groans or prayers which are sent up to God. Houbigant.
Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God. Castest off fear - Hebrew, 'breakest'-reverence for God ( Job 4:6 ; Psalms 2:11 , "Serve the Lord with fear"). Prayer - med...
The Second Series of Speeches (Job 15-21) The rejection by Job of the opinions and advice of the friends, his sturdy maintenance of his innocence, and the fearlessness with which in his anguish he...
Yea, thou castest off fear. — The tendency also of Job has been to encourage a kind of fatalism ( e.g., Job 12:16-25 ), and therefore to check the offering of prayer to God, besides setting an ex...
XIII. THE TRADITION OF A PURE RACE Job 15:1-35 ELIPHAZ SPEAKS THE first colloquy has made clear severance between the old Theology and the facts of human life. No positive reconciliation is e...
“The Heavens Are not Clean” Job 15:1-35 The second colloquy, like the first, is commenced by Eliphaz. He begins by rebuking Job, Job 15:1-16 . He complains that the words of Job proved him t...
Here the second cycle of argument begins, and again Eliphaz is the first speaker. It is at once evident that Job's answers had wounded him. He first criticized Job's manner, charging him with using...
(4) Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God. This, had it been true, would have been a heavy charge: and if false, made Eliphaz a transgressor. Reader! you may safely conclude,...
Yea, thou castest off fear ,.... Not of man; a slavish fear of man is to be cast off, because that brings a snare, deters men from their duty, and leads into sin; though there is a fear and reverenc...
Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God. Ver. 4. Yea, thou casiest off fear ] Heb. Thou makest void fear; that is, religion, whereof the fear of God is both the beginning, P...
Yea, thou castest off fear Hebrew, Thou makest void fear; the fear of God, piety, and religion, by thy unworthy speeches of God, and by those false and pernicious principles, that God makes no di...
ELIPHAZ CLAIMS JOB CONDEMNS HIMSELF (vv.1-6) This response of Eliphaz lacks the measure of self-restraint he had shown in his first address. He had first at least spoken with a measure of consid...
Second Address of Eliphaz. B. C. 1520. 1 Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said, ...
Heb. Thou makest void fear , i.e. the fear of God, as the word is oft used for the word of God; or piety and religion, which oft cometh under the name of fear. This may be understood either, 1....
SECOND COURSE OF DIALOGUES.—SECOND SPEECH OF ELIPHAZ Eliphaz less gentle and courteous than in his former speech. Probably irritated at his little success with Job, who rejected his friend’s cou...
Job 15:4 This text helps us to put our finger on the cause of a great deal that is amiss in all of us. It is very likely, it is all but certain, that the reason of all our trouble, and dull discou...
Job 15:2 . Fill his belly with the east wind; a hot dry wind, the least favourable to vegetation. This is an angry figure of speech, equivalent to a declaration that Job's defence was a mere storm...
Thou restrainest prayer before God. The hindrances to spiritual prayer All the motives by which the heart of man can be influenced, combine to urge upon him the great duty of prayer. Whence, th...
EXPOSITION The second colloquy between Job and his friends is, like the first (ch. 3-14.), one in which all of them take part, and the same order of speakers is maintained. Job answers each spea...
Eliphaz Attempts to Rebuke Job
1 Chronicles 10:13 ; 1 Chronicles 10:14 ; Amos 6:10 ; Galatians 2:21 ; Hosea 7:14 ; Job 27:10 ; Job 4:5 ; Job 4:6 ; Job 5:8 ; Job 6:14 ; Luke 18:1 ; Psalms 119:126 ; Psalms 36:1-3 ; Rom...
Castest off — Heb. thou makes void fear; the fear of God, piety and religion, by thy unworthy speeches of God, and by those false and pernicious principles, that God makes no difference between goo...