Job 21:14
Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; 1 For we desire not the knowledge of thy ways. 1
KJV Cambridge Paragraph
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, 1 And in a moment go down to the grave. 1
Cross References
Psalms 10:4The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: 1 God is not in all his thoughts. 1
Psalms 95:10Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, 1 And said, It is a people that do err in their heart, 1 And they have not known my ways: 1
Proverbs 1:22How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? 1 And the scorners delight in their scorning, 1 And fools hate knowledge? 1
Isaiah 30:11Get ye out of the way, 1 Turn aside out of the path, 1 Cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us. 1
Habakkuk 1:15They take up all of them with the angle, 1 They catch them in their net, and gather them in their drag: 1 Therefore they rejoice and are glad. 1
Luke 8:37Then the whole multitude of the country of the Gadarenes round about besought him to depart from them; for they were taken with great fear: and he went up into the ship, and 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 →