Job 21:14
And yet they say unto God, “Depart from us! We desire not the knowledge of thy ways!
Noyes Bible
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 in a moment go down to the under-world.
15Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him? And what will it profit us, if we pray to him?”
Cross References
Psalms 10:4The wicked [[saith]] in his haughtiness, “He careth not!” All his thoughts are, “There is no God.”
Psalms 95:10Forty years was I offended with that generation: And I said, 'They are a people of a perverse heart, And who have no regard to my ways.'
Proverbs 1:22How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? How long will scoffers delight themselves in scoffing, And fools hate knowledge?
Isaiah 30:11Turn aside from the way, Depart from the path, Remove from our sight the Holy One of Israel!”
Habakkuk 1:15They take up all of them with the hook, They catch them in their net, And gather them in their drag; Therefore they rejoice and exult.
Luke 8:37And the whole multitude in the surrounding country of the Gergesenes besought him to depart from them; for they were seized with great fear. And he went on board a boat and returned.
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 →