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Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Job 15:1-16

Eliphaz here falls very foul upon Job, because he contradicted what he and his colleagues had said, and did not acquiesce in it and applaud it, as they expected. Proud people are apt thus to take it very much amiss if they may not have leave to dictate and give law to all about them, and to censure those as ignorant and obstinate, and all that is naught, who cannot in every thing say as they say. Several great crimes Eliphaz here charges Job with, only because he would not own himself a... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 15:4

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 of men which ought to be given to them, "fear to whom fear", Romans 13:7 ; but here the fear of God is meant, which is to be understood of the grace of fear, of which Job was possessed; that could not be cast off, for this is not what is in a man naturally, or is by the light of nature, and... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 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 arraigning his providence and justifying thyself. When a man has any doubts whether he has grieved God's Spirit, and his mind feels troubled, it is much better for him to go immediately to God, and ask forgiveness, than spend any time in finding excuses for his conduct, or laboring to divest it of its seeming... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 15:1-16

Eliphaz to Job: Resumption of the second controversy: 1. An overwhelming indictment. I. OLD ACCUSATIONS REPEATED . 1 . Unprofitable talk. The replies given by Job in the preceding colloquy Eliphaz characterizes as 2 . Manifest impiety. Eliphaz had already ( Job 4:6 ) insinuated that Job was devoid of true religion; here he regards the insinuation as substantiated by the conduct of Job himself in three particulars. 3 . Astounding presumption. Stung by Job's ridicule... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 15:1-19

Perversity and impenitence rebuked. In the next six chapters the controversy between Job and his friends takes a new and embittered turn. They muster their forces to put down the daring speaker, who as they deem has challenged the justice of God. They seek to humiliate him as a late-born, itinerant, and passionate man, who has incurred fresh guilt by his impious questionings and blasphemies. Eliphaz gives a terrible representation of the general truth that the wicked man, living for himself... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 15:4

Yea, thou castest off fear . To Eliphaz, Job's words—his bold expostulations ( Job 13:3 , Job 13:15 , Job 13:22 , etc.), his declarations that he knows he will be justified ( Job 13:8 ), and that God will be his Salvation ( Job 13:16 )—seem to imply that he has cast off altogether the fear of God, and is entirely devoid of reverence. Some of his expressions certainly seem over-bold; but, on the other hand, his sense of God's purity, perfectness, and transcendent power is... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 15:4

Restraining prayer. Of the reasons leading men to either neglect or discontinue the exercise of prayer, these will be found to be the chief. I. THERE IS NO GOD TO PRAY TO . This the reason of the atheist. But the existence of a supreme First Cause, possessed of intelligence and moral character, is to faith assured by: 1 . The intuitions of the human mind , which may sometimes attempt to argue itself out of, but never needs to reason itself into, the belief in a... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 15:4

Restraining prayer. Eliphaz thinks that Job's wild words are a reproach to religion, and that the effect of them will be to undermine faith and discourage prayer. His is a common alarm of short-sighted, cautious people who think it safest to suppress doubt, and to whom the hasty utterances of a disturbed mind are most dreadful, although the fact is that the cold repetition of narrow and erroneous dogmas is far more hurt[hi to the cause of spiritual religion. I. THE EVIL OF ... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Job 15:4

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 argument. He had defended principles and made assertions which implied great disrespect for the Deity. If those doctrines were true; if he was right in his views about God, then he was not a being who could be reverenced. No confidence could be placed in his government; no worship of such a being could be... read more

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