Job 21:14
While they are alive, they say to God, ‘Do not bother us; we do not want to know how you want us to conduct our lives!
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.
In Context
Cross References
Psalms 10:4Wicked people are very proud. As a result, they do not ◄seek help from/are not concerned about► God; they do not even think that God exists.
Psalms 95:10For 40 years I was angry with those people, and I said, ‘Those people say that they want to please me, but they do things that I detest. They refuse to obey my commands.’
Proverbs 1:22Wisdom says, “How long will you stupid people continue to enjoy doing foolish things [RHQ]? How long will you people who ridicule God enjoy doing that [RHQ]? How long will you foolish people refuse to know what things are right [RHQ]?
Isaiah 30:11Stop doing what you have been doing [DOU]; stop telling us what the Holy One of Israel says to us!”
Habakkuk 1:15The soldiers of Babylonia think that we are fish [RHQ] for them to pull out of the sea with hooks or to catch in their nets, while they rejoice and celebrate.
Luke 8:37Then those people and many other people [HYP] from the area near Gerasa asked Jesus to leave their area. They were very afraid of what else Jesus would do to them. So Jesus and the disciples got into the boat to go back across the lake.
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 →