“Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God.”
"But you are doing away with the fear of God and hindering meditation before God." Eliphaz accuses Job of impiety—his arguments undermine reverence for God and obstruct prayer. The implication is that Job's complaint is blasphemous, that his willingness to challenge divine justice is itself evidence of spiritual corruption. This verse shifts the charge from guilt to heresy.
Church Fathers on Job 15:4
Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and said, Should a wise man answer as if speaking into the wind, and fill his belly with burning? We have already said frequently that blessed Job bears a type of the Holy Church universal, and that his friends bear the likeness of heretics, who as it were on the plea of defence of the Lord find occasion of foolish talking, and let loose insulting words against good men; to whom all is displeasing that is thought by the faithful, as though…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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