Job 15:4

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אַף־אַתָּה תָּפֵר יִרְאָה וְתִגְרַע שִׂיחָה לִפְנֵי־אֵל

Transliteration

ʾap̄-ʾattāh tāp̄ēr yirʾāh wə-tiḡraʿ śîḥāh lip̄nê-ʾēl

Grammar Details

• *ʾap̄-ʾattāh*: conjunction + 2nd person masculine singular pronoun - even you
• *tāp̄ēr*: hiphil imperfect, 2nd masculine singular - you break/destroy
• *yirʾāh*: noun, feminine singular - fear/reverence
• *wə-tiḡraʿ*: waw consecutive + qal imperfect, 2nd masculine singular - and you diminish
• *śîḥāh*: noun, feminine singular - meditation/devotion
• *lip̄nê-ʾēl*: preposition + noun, masculine singular - before God

Word Meanings

• *ʾap̄*: moreover, indeed, even
• *pārar*: to break, frustrate, violate, make void
• *yirʾāh*: fear, reverence, piety
• *gāraʿ*: to diminish, restrain, withdraw, limit
• *śîḥāh*: meditation, devotion, prayer
• *lip̄nê*: before, in front of
• *ʾēl*: God, deity

Referenced Verses

• 1 Chr 10:13-14 : 13 So Saul died for his transgression which he committed against the LORD, even against the word of the LORD, which he kept not, and also for asking counsel of one that had a familiar spirit, to enquire of it; 14 And enquired not of the LORD: therefore he slew him, and turned the kingdom unto David the son of Jesse.
• Job 4:5-6 : 5 But now it is come upon thee, and thou faintest; it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled. 6 Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?
• Job 5:8 : 8 I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:
• Job 6:14 : 14 To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.
• Job 27:10 : 10 Will he delight himself in the Almighty? will he always call upon God?
• Ps 36:1-3 : 1 To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David the servant of the LORD. The transgression of the wicked saith{H8803)} within my heart, that there is no fear of God before his eyes. 2 For he flattereth himself in his own eyes, until his iniquity be found{H8800)} to be hateful{H8800)}. 3 The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he hath left off to be wise{H8687)}, and to do good{H8687)}.
• Ps 119:126 : 126 It is time for thee, LORD, to work: for they have made void thy law.
• Hos 7:14 : 14 And they have not cried unto me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds: they assemble themselves for corn and wine, and they rebel against me.
• Amos 6:10 : 10 And a man's uncle shall take him up, and he that burneth him, to bring out the bones out of the house, and shall say unto him that is by the sides of the house, Is there yet any with thee? and he shall say, No. Then shall he say, Hold thy tongue: for we may not make mention of the name of the LORD.
• Zeph 1:6 : 6 And them that are turned back from the LORD; and those that have not sought the LORD, nor enquired for him.
• Luke 18:1 : 1 And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint;
• Rom 3:31 : 31 Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.
• Gal 2:21 : 21 I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.