Job 22:17
Which said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them?
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
Which said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them?
In Context
16Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflowed with a flood:
18Yet he filled their houses with good things: but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
Cross References
Job 21:10Their bull genders, and fails not; their cow calves, and casts not her calf.
Psalms 4:6There be many that say, Who will show us any good? LORD, lift you up the light of your countenance upon us.
Malachi 3:14All of you have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts?
Matthew 8:34And, behold, the whole city came out to meet Jesus: and when they saw him, they besought him that he would depart out of their coasts.
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 →