Yes, you do away with fear, and hinder devotion before God.
Parallel translations
- KJV Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God.
- BSB But you even undermine the fear of God and hinder meditation before Him.
- NKJV Yes, you cast off fear, And restrain prayer before God.
- NASB “Indeed, you do away with reverence, And hinder meditation before God.
- NLT Have you no fear of God, no reverence for him?
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Quick answer
Eliphaz accuses Job of undermining reverence and prayer toward God. He charges Job with corrupting true piety.
Overview
Eliphaz claims Job's words 'do away with fear' and 'hinder devotion before God.' He alleges that Job's bold complaints erode godly reverence in others. The accusation is unjust, for Job's wrestling springs from faith, not impiety, yet it shows how honest lament can be misread as irreverence.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 13
- Rom 3:31Do we then nullify the law through faith? May it never be! No, we establish the law.
- Ps 36:1–3For the Chief Musician. By David, the servant of Yahweh. An inner sanctuary is within my heart about the disobedience of the wicked: “There is no fear of God before his eyes.”
- Amos 6:10“When a man’s relative carries him, even he who burns him, to bring bodies out of the house, and asks him who is in the innermost parts of the house, ‘Is there yet any with you?’ And he says, ‘No;’ then he will say, ‘Hush! Indeed we must not mention Yahweh’s name.’
- Job 5:8“But as for me, I would seek God. I would commit my cause to God,
- Job 27:10Will he delight himself in the Almighty, and call on God at all times?
- Ps 119:126It is time to act, Yahweh, for they break your law.
- Zeph 1:6those who have turned back from following Yahweh, and those who haven’t sought Yahweh nor inquired after him.
- Job 4:5–6But now it has come to you, and you faint. It touches you, and you are troubled.
- Hos 7:14They haven’t cried to me with their heart, but they howl on their beds. They assemble themselves for grain and new wine. They turn away from me.
- Job 6:14“To him who is ready to faint, kindness should be shown from his friend; even to him who forsakes the fear of the Almighty.
- 1 Chr 10:13–14So Saul died for his trespass which he committed against Yahweh, because of Yahweh’s word, which he didn’t keep; and also because he asked counsel of one who had a familiar spirit, to inquire,
- Gal 2:21I don’t reject the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing!”
- Luke 18:1He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray, and not give up,
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