Job 15

Treated in 10 passages across the library.

The verses these writers stop at

  • 15:15 If God does not trust even his holy ones, and the heavens are not pure in his sight, 3
  • 15:4 But you are doing away with the fear of God and hindering devotion before him. 2
  • 15:16 how much less one who is vile and corrupt, a person who drinks in wrongdoing like water! 2
  • 15:11 Are God's comforts too small for you, or a word spoken gently to you? 1
  • 15:18 what the wise have declared and have not hidden, what came from their ancestors, 1
  • 15:31 Let him not deceive himself by trusting in what is empty, for emptiness will be his reward. 1

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Where it is preached

  1. The Ministry of Intercession · Andrew Murray

    Restraining Prayer—Is It Sin? cites Job xv. 4

    “Thou restrainest prayer before God.”—Job xv. 4. “What profit should we have, if we pray unto Him?”—Job xxi. 15. “God forbid that I…

  2. The God of All Comfort · Hannah Whitall Smith

    Things That Cannot Be Shaken cites Job 15:31

    …We are told that if we “trust in emptiness,” then “emptiness will be [our] payment” (Job 15:31), and many times we have found this to be true. Have you ever crossed a dangerous swamp…

  3. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

    3.1 Man's Inability to keep the Moral Law cites Job 15: 16

    …he is born in sin, and lives in sin. Psa 51: 5. ‘He drinketh iniquity like water.’ Job 15: 16. All the imaginations of his thoughts are evil, and only evil. Gen 6: 5. The least evil…

  4. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

    4.6 Prayer cites Job 15: 4

    …leaves off to fear God. ‘Thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God.’ Job 15: 4. A man that has left off prayer, is fit for any wickedness. When Saul had given over…

  5. Institutes of the Christian Religion · John Calvin

    Book 3, Chapter 12 — Necessity of Contemplating the Judgment-seat of God, in Order to Be Seriously Convinced of the Doctrine of Gratuitous Justification cites Job 15:15

    …sight. How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?” (Job 15:15, 16). I confess, indeed, that in the Book of Job reference is made to a righteousness of…

  6. Holiness · J. C. Ryle

    Sin cites Job xv. 18

    …reads thoughts and motives as well as actions, and requires “truth in the inward parts.” (Job xv. 18; xv. 15; Psa. li. 6.) We, on the other hand—poor blind creatures, here to-day and gone…

  7. Holiness · J. C. Ryle

    Growth cites Job xv. 11

    …It should raise in you great searchings of heart. There must be some “secret thing.” (Job xv. 11.) There must be some cause. Take the advice I give you. Resolve this very day that you…

  8. A Body of Divinity · Thomas Watson

    Original Sin cites Job 15:16

    …nature to sin.’ Men roll sin as honey under their tongue. ‘They drink iniquity as water,’ Job 15:16. Like a hydropsical person, that thirsts for drink, and is not satisfied; they have a…

  9. Old Paths · J. C. Ryle

    Our Sins! cites Job. xv. 15

    …and infirmities where we see none. In His sight the very “heavens are not clean.” (Job. xv. 15.) He is a God of infinite knowledge. He knows every thought, and word, and action of…

  10. Old Paths · J. C. Ryle

    Forgiveness cites Job xv. 15

    …of creation; but even of them it is written, “The heavens are not clean in His sight.” (Job xv. 15.) What then is any one of us but a miserable sinner in the sight of such a God as this?…