Job 15:4
Good News Translation
If you had your way, no one would fear God; no one would pray to him.

New Revised Standard Version
But you are doing away with the fear of God, and hindering meditation before God.

Contemporary English Version
Your words are enough to make others turn from God and lead them to doubt.

New American Bible
You in fact do away with piety, you lessen devotion toward God,

Douay-Rheims Bible
As much as is in thee, thou hast made void fear, and hast taken away prayers from before God.

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As much as is in thee, thou hast made void fear, and hast taken away prayers from before God.

castest off.

Job 4:5,6 But now the scourge is come upon thee, and thou faintest: It hath touched thee, and thou art troubled. . . .

Job 6:14 He that taketh away mercy from his friend, forsaketh the fear of the Lord.

Psalm 36:1-3 Unto the end, for the servant of God, David himself. [2] The unjust hath said within himself, that he would sin: there is no fear of God before his eyes. . . .

Psalm 119:126 It is time, O Lord, to do: they have dissipated thy law.

Zephaniah 1:6 And them that turn away from following after the Lord, and that have not sought the Lord, nor searched after him.

Romans 3:31 Do we then, destroy the law through faith? God forbid! But we establish the law.

Galatians 2:21 I cast not away the grace of God. For if justice be by the law, then Christ died in vain.

restrainest

Job 5:8 Wherefore I will pray to the Lord, and address my speech to God:

Job 27:10 Or can he delight himself in the Almighty, and call upon God at all times?

1 Chronicles 10:13,14 So Saul died for his iniquities, because he transgressed the commandment of the Lord, which he had commanded, and kept it not: and moreover consulted also a witch, . . .

Hosea 7:14 And they have not cried to me with their heart, but they howled in their beds: they have thought upon wheat and wine, they are departed from me.

Amos 6:10 And a man's kinsman shall take him up, and shall burn him, that he may carry the bones out of the house; and he shall say to him that is in the inner rooms of the house: Is there yet any with thee?

Luke 18:1 And he spoke also a parable to them, that we ought always to pray and not to faint,

prayer.

Context
Eliphaz: Job Does Not Fear God
3Thou reprovest him by words, who is not equal to thee, and thou speakest that which is not good for thee. 4As much as is in thee, thou hast made void fear, and hast taken away prayers from before God.5For thy iniquity hath taught thy mouth, and thou imitatest the tongue of blasphemers.…
Cross References
Job 6:14
He that taketh away mercy from his friend, forsaketh the fear of the Lord.

Job 15:3
Thou reprovest him by words, who is not equal to thee, and thou speakest that which is not good for thee.

Job 15:5
For thy iniquity hath taught thy mouth, and thou imitatest the tongue of blasphemers.

Job 15:3
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