Job 15:4 - Exposition

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 continually manifest, and should have saved him from the rude reproach here launched against him (comp. Job 9:1-13 ; Job 12:24 25; Job 13:11 , Job 13:21 , etc.). And restrainest prayer before God; rather, and hinderest devout meditation before God. Eliphaz means that Job expresses himself in a way so of. fensive to devout souls, that he disturbs their minds and prevents them from indulging in those pious meditations on the Divine goodness which would otherwise occupy them (comp. Psalms 119:97 ). Thus, according to Eliphaz, Job is not only irreligious himself, but the cause of irreligion in others.