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Job 15:4

NETBible	But you even break off¹ piety,² and hinder³ meditation⁴ before God.
NIV © biblegateway Job 15:4	But you even undermine piety and hinder devotion to God.
NASB © biblegateway Job 15:4	"Indeed, you do away with reverence And hinder meditation before God.
NLT © biblegateway Job 15:4	Have you no fear of God, no reverence for him?
MSG © biblegateway Job 15:4	Look at you! You trivialize religion, turn spiritual conversation into empty gossip.
BBE © SABDAweb Job 15:4	Truly, you make the fear of God without effect, so that the time of quiet worship before God is made less by your outcry.
NRSV © bibleoremus Job 15:4	But you are doing away with the fear of God, and hindering meditation before God.
NKJV © biblegateway Job 15:4	Yes, you cast off fear, And restrain prayer before God.
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KJV	Yea, thou castest off <06565> (8686) fear <03374>_, and restrainest <01639> (8799) prayer <07881> before <06440> God <0410>_. {castest...: Heb. makest void} {prayer: or, speech}
NASB © biblegateway Job 15:4	"Indeed <0637> , you do <06565> away <06565> with reverence <03374> And hinder <01639> meditation <07881> before <06440> God <0410> .
LXXM	ou <3364> ADV kai <2532> CONJ su <4771> P-NS apepoihsw {V-AMI-2S} fobon <5401> N-ASM sunetelesw <4931> V-AMI-2S de <1161> PRT rhmata <4487> N-APN toiauta <5108> A-APN enanti <1725> PREP tou <3588> T-GSM kuriou <2962> N-GSM
NET [draft] ITL	But you <0859> even <0637> break off <06565> piety <03374> , and hinder <01639> meditation <07881> before <06440> God <0410> .
HEBREW	la <0410> ynpl <06440> hxyv <07881> ergtw <01639> hary <03374> rpt <06565> hta <0859> Pa (15:4) <0637>

NETBible

But you even break off¹ piety,² and hinder³ meditation⁴ before God.

NET Notes

¹tn The word פָּרַר (parar) in the Hiphil means “to annul; to frustrate; to destroy; to break,” and this fits the line quite well. The NEB reflects G. R. Driver’s suggestion of an Arabic cognate meaning “to expel; to banish” (“Problems in the Hebrew text of Job,” VTSup 3 [1955]: 77).

²tn Heb “fear,” “reverence.”

³tn The word גָּרַע (gara’) means “to diminish,” regard as insignificant, occasionally with the sense of “pull down” (Deut 4:2; 13:1). It is here that Eliphaz is portraying Job as a menace to the religion of society because they dissuade people from seeking God.

⁴tn The word שִׂיחָה (sikhah) is “complaint; cry; meditation.” Job would be influencing people to challenge God and not to meditate before or pray to him.