Job 15:4
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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.

Lexicon
But
אַף־ (’ap̄-)
Conjunction
Strong's Hebrew 637: Meaning accession, yea, adversatively though

you
אַ֭תָּה (’at·tāh)
Pronoun - second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 859: Thou and thee, ye and you

even undermine
תָּפֵ֣ר (tā·p̄êr)
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6565: To break up, to violate, frustrate

the fear [of God]
יִרְאָ֑ה (yir·’āh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3374: Fear, reverence

and hinder
וְתִגְרַ֥ע (wə·ṯiḡ·ra‘)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1639: To scrape off, to shave, remove, lessen, withhold

meditation
שִׂ֝יחָ֗ה (·ḥāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7881: Reflection, be extension, devotion

before
לִפְנֵי־ (lip̄·nê-)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's Hebrew 6440: The face

Him.
אֵֽל׃ (’êl)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 410: Strength -- as adjective, mighty, the Almighty


Additional Translations
But you even undermine the fear of God and hinder meditation before Him.Yes, you cast off fear, and restrain prayer before God.

Yea, thou doest away with fear, And hinderest devotion before God.

Hast not thou moreover cast off fear, and accomplished such words before the Lord?

Yea, thou makest piety of none effect, and restrainest meditation before God.

Yea, thou doest away with fear, and restrainest devotion before God.

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

Yes, you do away with fear, and hinder devotion before God.

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