Job 15:4

What does Job 15:4 mean?

A plain-English look at Job 15:4 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

Truly, you make the fear of God without effect, so that the time of quiet worship before God is made less by your outcry.

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

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

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

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

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

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

Context

v.3Should he reason with unprofitable talk, Or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?

v.4This passage

v.5For thine iniquity teacheth thy mouth, And thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Job 4:5

    But now it is come unto thee, and thou faintest; It toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.

  • Psalms 119:126

    It is time for Jehovah to work; Forthey have made void thy law.

  • 1 Chronicles 10:13

    So Saul died for his trespass which he committed against Jehovah, because of the word of Jehovah, which he kept not; and also for that he asked counsel of one that had a familiar spirit, to inquire thereby,

  • Romans 3:31

    Do we then make the law of none effect through faith? God forbid: nay, we establish the law.

  • Job 5:8

    But as for me, I would seek unto God, And unto God would I commit my cause;

  • Job 27:10

    Will he delight himself in the Almighty, And call upon God at all times?

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