Job 22:17
who said to God, ‘Depart from us!’ and, ‘What can the Almighty do for us?’
World English Bible Classic
In The King James Version
Which said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them?
In Context
16who were snatched away before their time, whose foundation was poured out as a stream,
18Yet he filled their houses with good things, but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
Cross References
Job 21:10Their bulls breed without fail. Their cows calve, and don’t miscarry.
Psalms 4:6Many say, “Who will show us any good?” LORD, let the light of your face shine on us.
Malachi 3:14You have said, ‘It is vain to serve God,’ and ‘What profit is it that we have followed his instructions and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of Armies?
Matthew 8:34Behold, all the city came out to meet Jesus. When they saw him, they begged that he would depart from their borders.
Matthew Henry on Job 22:16-21
Judgments Executed on the Wicked. ( b. c. 1520.) 15 Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden? 16 Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood: 17 Which said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them? 18 Yet he filled their houses with good things: but the counsel of the wicked is far from me. 19 The righteous see it, and are glad: and the innocent laugh them to scorn. 20 Whereas our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them the fire… Read the whole commentary →