George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Job 15:4
God. Another, after thy example, will assert his own innocence under affliction, and will not fear, nor have recourse to God by humble prayer. Behold the dangerous consequences of thy principle. (Calmet)
God. Another, after thy example, will assert his own innocence under affliction, and will not fear, nor have recourse to God by humble prayer. Behold the dangerous consequences of thy principle. (Calmet)
Verse Job 15:4. _THOU CASTEST OFF FEAR_] Thou hast no reverence for God. _AND RESTRAINEST PRAYER_] Instead of _humbling_ thyself, and making _supplication_ to thy Judge, thou spendest thy time in arr...
YEA, THOU CASTEST OFF FEAR - Margin, Makest void. Fear here means the fear or reverence of God; and the idea is, that Job had not maintained a proper veneration or respect for his Maker in his argumen...
THE SECOND SERIES OF CONTROVERSIES CHAPTER 15 Eliphaz's Second Address _ 1. Tells Job that he is self-condemned (Job 15:1)_ 2. Charges him with pride (Job 15:7) 3. The wicked and their lot (Job 15...
JOB 15:2 is a polemic against Job's arrogance and pretence of wisdom. Job's words are empty and violent (Job 15:2 f.). He does away with all religion (Job 15:4) and breaks the reverential stillness, w...
FEAR. reverence. GOD. Hebrew El. App-4....
Eliphaz rebukes Job's contemptuous treatment of the opinions of his friends, and his irreverence towards God First, starting with Job's claim to a wisdom beyond that of his friends (ch. Job 12:3; Job...
Job was more than unwise, he was doing away with all fear of God. _castest off fear_ Or, as margin, MAKEST VOID, doest away with, THE FEAR OF GOD. _restrainest prayer_ Rather, IMPAIREST REVERENCE or...
YEA, THOU CASTEST OFF FEAR, &C.— _Truly thou loosest the bonds of religion; thou preventest the groans or prayers which are sent up to God._ Houbigant....
II. CRISIS IN COMMUNICATION OR THE MIRACLE OF DIALOGUE? (Job 15:1, Job 21:34). A. THE GOODNESS OF GOD AND THE FATE OF THE WICKEDELIPHAZ'S REBUTTAL (Job 15:1-35). 1. Job's speech and conduct are pe...
_YEA, THOU CASTEST OFF FEAR, AND RESTRAINEST PRAYER BEFORE GOD._ Castest off fear - Hebrew, 'breakest'-reverence for God (Job 4:6; Psalms 2:11, "Serve the Lord with fear"). PRAYER - meditation, in P...
15:4 piety (c-4) Or 'fear [of God].'...
THE SECOND SERIES OF SPEECHES (JOB 15-21) The rejection by Job of the opinions and advice of the friends, his sturdy maintenance of his innocence, and the fearlessness with which in his anguish he has...
JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 15 ELIPHAZ’S SECOND SPEECH...
Job said that good men often have awful lives. And he said that evil men have good lives (Job 12:6). Eliphaz could not agree. He believed that God rewards a good man. Eliphaz also believed that God pu...
YEA, THOU CASTEST OFF FEAR. — The tendency also of Job has been to encourage a kind of fatalism (_e.g.,_ Job 12:16), and therefore to check the offering of prayer to God, besides setting an example wh...
אַף ־אַ֭תָּה תָּפֵ֣ר יִרְאָ֑ה וְ תִגְרַ֥ע שׂ֝
XIII. THE TRADITION OF A PURE RACE Job 15:1 ELIPHAZ SPEAKS THE first colloquy has made clear severance between the old Theology and the facts of human life. No positive reconciliation is effected a...
“THE HEAVENS ARE NOT CLEAN” Job 15:1 The second colloquy, like the first, is commenced by Eliphaz. He begins by _rebuking_ Job, Job 15:1. He complains that the words of Job proved him to be unwise, J...
Here the second cycle of argument begins, and again Eliphaz is the first speaker. It is at once evident that Job's answers had wounded him. He first criticized Job's manner, charging him with using me...
Yea, thou castest off (c) fear, and restrainest prayer before God. (c) He charges Job as though his talk caused men to cast off the fear of God and prayer....
(4) Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God. This, had it been true, would have been a heavy charge: and if false, made Eliphaz a transgressor. Reader! you may safely conclude,...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31. As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks. They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure and...
YEA, THOU CASTEST OFF FEAR,.... Not of man; a slavish fear of man is to be cast off, because that brings a snare, deters men from their duty, and leads into sin; though there is a fear and reverence o...
Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God. Ver. 4. _Yea, thou casiest off fear_] Heb. Thou makest void fear; that is, religion, whereof the fear of God is both the beginning, Prov...
_Yea, thou castest off fear_ Hebrew, _Thou makest void fear;_ the fear of God, piety, and religion, by thy unworthy speeches of God, and by those false and pernicious principles, that God makes no dif...
Yea, thou, castest off fear, bringing to naught, making void, breaking down true piety, AND RESTRAINEST PRAYER BEFORE GOD, injuring and removing the proper devotional attitude, both of which are neces...
ELIPHAZ ATTEMPTS TO REBUKE JOB...
ELIPHAZ CLAIMS JOB CONDEMNS HIMSELF (vv.1-6) This response of Eliphaz lacks the measure of self-restraint he had shown in his first address. He had first at least spoken with a measure of considerat...
THOU CASTETH OFF: _ Heb._ thou makest void PRAYER: Or, speech...
Next he charges Job with being irreverent in his speech. "Rather than fostering. reverent attitude toward God, Job, according to Eliphaz, did away with (literally, diminished or undermined) reverence,...
1-16 Eliphaz begins a second attack upon Job, instead of being softened by his complaints. He unjustly charges Job with casting off the fear of God, and all regard to him, and restraining prayer. See...
Heb. _Thou makest void fear_, i.e. the fear of God, as the word is oft used FOR THE WORD OF GOD; or piety and religion, which oft cometh under the name of fear. This may be understood either, 1. Of J...
Job 15:4 off H6565 (H8686) fear H3374 restrain H1639 (H8799) prayer H7881 before H6440 God H410 castest off -
Job 15:4 This text helps us to put our finger on the cause of a great deal that is amiss in all of us. It is very likely, it is all but certain, that the reason of all our trouble, and dull discourag...
CONTENTS: Eliphaz's theory about Job, charging him with foolishly justifying himself. CHARACTERS: God, Job, Eliphaz. CONCLUSION: Those speeches which do no good, being of no service either to God, o...
Job 15:2. _Fill his belly with the east wind;_ a hot dry wind, the least favourable to vegetation. This is an angry figure of speech, equivalent to a declaration that Job's defence was a mere storm of...
_Thou restrainest prayer before God._ THE HINDRANCES TO SPIRITUAL PRAYER All the motives by which the heart of man can be influenced, combine to urge upon him the great duty of prayer. Whence, then,...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 15:1 Second Cycle. The arguments of each participant harden in the second round of speeches. Once again the three friends say that Job is suffering because of his sin. Job refuses to a...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 15:4 YOU ARE DOING AWAY WITH THE FEAR OF GOD. The Hebrew lacks the words “of God” (see esv footnote). However, the reference to God in the second half of the verse and the overall emph...
_SECOND COURSE OF DIALOGUES.—SECOND SPEECH OF ELIPHAZ_ Eliphaz less gentle and courteous than in his former speech. Probably irritated at his little success with Job, who rejected his friend’s counse...
EXPOSITION The second colloquy between Job and his friends is, like the first (ch. 3-14.), one in which all of them take part, and the same order of speakers is maintained. Job answers each speaker in...
Now at this point, Eliphaz, who was the first friend of Job's to speak, speaks for the second time. And he claims that he is older than Job, more experienced than Job, and thus Job ought to listen to...
1 Chronicles 10:13; 1 Chronicles 10:14; Amos 6:10; Galatians 2:21;...
Castest off — Heb. thou makes void fear; the fear of God, piety and religion, by thy unworthy speeches of God, and by those false and pernicious principles, that God makes no difference between good a...