Job 21:14
Yet they tell God, ‘Get lost! We don't want anything to do with you.
Free Bible Version
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 live out their lives contentedly, and go down to Sheol in peace.
Cross References
Psalms 10:4The wicked are too proud to come to God. In all their thinking they never consider God.
Psalms 95:10For forty years I was disgusted with that generation, and I said, ‘They are people who are unfaithful to me in their minds, and they refuse to accept my ways.’
Proverbs 1:22“How long will you stupid people love stupidity? How long will scornful people enjoy their mocking? How long will fools hate knowledge?
Isaiah 30:11Stop telling us straight; go a different direction! We don't want to hear any more about the Holy One of Israel.”
Habakkuk 1:15They drag everyone up with hooks, they pull them out with nets, catching them in dragnets. Then they happily celebrate.
Luke 8:37Then all the people from the Gerasene region asked Jesus to leave because they were overwhelmed by fear. So he got into the boat and went back.
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 →