Job 21:14
Yet they said unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.
Revised Version 1895
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 they go down to Sheol.
15What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?
Cross References
Psalms 10:4The wicked, in the pride of his countenance, saith, He will not require it. All his thoughts are, There is no God.
Psalms 95:10Forty years long was I grieved with that generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:
Proverbs 1:22How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and scorners delight them in scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
Isaiah 30:11get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.
Habakkuk 1:15He taketh up all of them with the angle, he catcheth them in his net, and gathereth them in his drag: therefore he rejoiceth and is glad.
Luke 8:37And all the people of the country of the Gerasenes round about asked him to depart from them; for they were holden with great fear: and he entered into 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 →