Job 21:14
Who have said to God: Depart from us, we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.
In Context
13They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment they go down to hell.
15Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what doth it profit us if we pray to him?
Cross References
Psalms 95:10Forty years long was I offended with that generation, and I said: These always err in heart.
Proverbs 1:22O children, how long will you love childishness, and fools covet those things which are hurtful to themselves, and the unwise hate knowledge?
Isaiah 30:11Take away from me the way, turn away the path from me, let the Holy One of Israel cease from before us.
Habakkuk 1:15He lifted up all them with his hook, he drew them in his drag, and gathered them into his net: for this he will be glad and rejoice.
Luke 8:37And all the multitude of the country of the Gerasens besought him to depart from them; for they were taken with great fear. And he, going up into the ship, returned back again.
Matthew Henry on Job 21:8-17
Prosperity of the Wicked; Abuse of Earthly Prosperity. ( b. c. 1520.) 7 Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power? 8 Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes. 9 Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them. 10 Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf. 11 They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance. 12 They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at… Read the whole commentary →