King James Version
Job 15:4 in the King James Version says “Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God. castest: Heb. makest void prayer: or, speech” — study this verse from Job chapter 15 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God. castest: Heb. makest void prayer: or, speech”
Job 15:4 · KJV
Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind? vain: Heb. knowledge of wind
Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?
Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God. castest: Heb. makest void prayer: or, speech
For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty. uttereth: Heb. teacheth
Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee.
KJV Study — Public Domain
meaning accession (used as an adverb or conjunction); also or yea; adversatively though
“Yea thou castest off”
H6565to break up (usually figuratively), i.e., to violate, frustrate
“and restrainest”
H1639to scrape off; by implication, to shave, remove, lessen, withhold
“before”
H6440the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposi
“God”
H410strength; as adjective, mighty; especially the almighty (but used also of any deity)
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