Job 15:4

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.

Related Commentaries of Job 15:4

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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 pr...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

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...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

fear . reverence. GOD. Hebrew El. App-4.
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God. Thou castest off fear - Thou hast no reverence for God. And restrainest prayer - Inst...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God. Castest off fear - Hebrew, 'breakest'-reverence for God ( Job 4:6 ; Psalms 2:...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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,...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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 th...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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 fa...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

“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...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(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 Elipha...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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 l...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

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,...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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 fal...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Second Address of Eliphaz. B. C. 1520. ...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

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...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

SECOND COURSE OF DIALOGUES.—SECOND SPEECH OF ELIPHAZ Eliphaz less gentle and courteous than in his former speech. Probably irritated at his litt...
Sermon Bible Commentary

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, t...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
The Biblical Illustrator

Thou restrainest prayer before God. The hindrances to spiritual prayer All the motives by which the heart of man can be influenced, combine to...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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 orde...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Eliphaz Attempts to Rebuke Job
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Yea, thou, castest off fear, bringing to naught, making void, breaking down true piety, and restrainest prayer before God, injuring and removing th...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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 ; L...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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 pr...

⁴ Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God.

Related Commentaries of Job 15:4

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sermon Bible Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Job 15:4