Job 21:14
Yet they said unto God: 'Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of Thy ways.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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 prosperity, and peacefully they go down to the grave.
Cross References
Psalms 10:4The wicked, in the pride of his countenance, saith: 'He will not require'; all his thoughts are: 'There is no God.'
Psalms 95:10For forty years was I wearied with that generation, and said: It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known My ways;
Proverbs 1:22'How long, ye thoughtless, will ye love thoughtlessness? And how long will scorners delight them in scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
Isaiah 30:11Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.'
Habakkuk 1:15They take up all of them with the angle, they catch them in their net, and gather them in their drag; therefore they rejoice and exult.
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 →