Job 21:14
And yet they say unto God, “Depart from us; and the knowledge of thy ways we desire not.
Leeser Tanakh
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 wear out their days in happiness, and in a moment they go down to the nether world.
Cross References
Psalms 10:4The wicked, according to the pride of his wrathfulness, [saith,] He will not require, There is no God [in] all his plans.
Psalms 95:10Forty years long did I feel loathing on that generation, and I said, It is a people of an erring heart; and they truly acknowledged not my ways:
Proverbs 1:22How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners take their delight in scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
Isaiah 30:11Depart you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, remove from before us the Holy One of Israel.
Habakkuk 1:15All of them he bringeth up with the angle, he draggeth them up in his net, and gathereth them in his drag: therefore he rejoiceth and is glad.
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 →