Castest Devotion Diminish Doest Effect Fear Hinder Hinderest Hindering Impairest Indeed Less Makest Meditation None Outcry Piety Prayer Quiet Restrainest Reverence Truly Void Worship Yea Yes
15:4 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.
15:4 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 and bad in the course of his providence, but equally prospers or afflicts both: thou dost that which tends to the subversion of the fear and worship of God. Restrainest prayer - Thou dost by thy words and principles, as far as in thee lies, banish prayer out of the world, by making it useless and unprofitable to men.
15:1-16 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 in what religion is summed up, fearing God, and praying to him; the former the most needful principle, the latter the most needful practice. Eliphaz charges Job with self-conceit. He charges him with contempt of the counsels and comforts given him by his friends. We are apt to think that which we ourselves say is important, when others, with reason, think little of it. He charges him with opposition to God. Eliphaz ought not to have put harsh constructions upon the words of one well known for piety, and now in temptation. It is plain that these disputants were deeply convinced of the doctrine of original sin, and the total depravity of human nature. Shall we not admire the patience of God in bearing with us? and still more his love to us in the redemption of Christ Jesus his beloved Son?
Castest Devotion Diminish Effect Fear Hinder Indeed Less Makest Meditation Outcry Piety Prayer Quiet Reverence sh Time Undermine Void Worship
Castest Devotion Diminish Effect Fear Hinder Indeed Less Makest Meditation Outcry Piety Prayer Quiet Reverence sh Time Undermine Void Worship
