Job 22:17
Who said to God: Depart from us: and looked upon the Almighty as if he could do nothing:
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Which said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them?
In Context
16Who were taken away before their time, and a flood hath overthrown their foundation.
18Whereas he had filled their houses with good things: whose way of thinking be far from me.
Cross References
Job 21:10Their cattle have conceived, and failed not: their cow has calved, and is not deprived of her fruit.
Psalms 4:6Offer up the sacrifice of justice, and trust in the Lord: many say, Who sheweth us good things?
Malachi 3:14And you have said: What have we spoken against thee? You have said: He laboureth in vain that serveth God, and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinances, and that we have walked sorrowful before the Lord of hosts?
Matthew 8:34And behold the whole city went out to meet Jesus, and when they saw him, they besought him that he would depart from their coasts.
Matthew Henry on Job 22:16-21
Judgments Executed on the Wicked. ( b. c. 1520.) 15 Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden? 16 Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood: 17 Which said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them? 18 Yet he filled their houses with good things: but the counsel of the wicked is far from me. 19 The righteous see it, and are glad: and the innocent laugh them to scorn. 20 Whereas our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them the fire… Read the whole commentary →