Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God.
Parallel translations
- WEB Yes, you do away with fear, and hinder devotion 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
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- Rom 3:31Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.
- Ps 36:1–3The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart, that there is no fear of God before his eyes.
- Amos 6:10And a man’s uncle shall take him up, and he that burneth him, to bring out the bones out of the house, and shall say unto him that is by the sides of the house, Is there yet any with thee? and he shall say, No. Then shall he say, Hold thy tongue: for we may not make mention of the name of the LORD.
- Job 5:8I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:
- Job 27:10Will he delight himself in the Almighty? will he always call upon God?
- Ps 119:126It is time for thee, LORD, to work: for they have made void thy law.
- Zeph 1:6And them that are turned back from the LORD; and those that have not sought the LORD, nor enquired for him.
- Job 4:5–6But now it is come upon thee, and thou faintest; it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.
- Hos 7:14And they have not cried unto me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds: they assemble themselves for corn and wine, and they rebel against me.
- Job 6:14To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.
- 1 Chr 10:13–14So Saul died for his transgression which he committed against the LORD, even against the word of the LORD, which he kept not, and also for asking counsel of one that had a familiar spirit, to enquire of it;
- Gal 2:21I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.
- Luke 18:1And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint;
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