English Standard Version
Job 21:14
14They say to God, 'Depart from us! We do not desire the knowledge of your ways.
Job 21:14 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.
- New International Version (NIV)Yet they say to God, ‘Leave us alone! We have no desire to know your ways.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Yet they say to God, ‘Depart from us, For we do not desire the knowledge of Your ways.
- New Living Translation (NLT)And yet they say to God, ‘Go away. We want no part of you and your ways.
Context of Job 21:14
12They sing to the tambourine and the lyre and rejoice to the sound of the pipe. 13They spend their days in prosperity, and in peace they go down to Sheol. They say to God, 'Depart from us! We do not desire the knowledge of your ways. 15What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? And what profit do we get if we pray to him?' 16Behold, is not their prosperity in their hand? The counsel of the wicked is far from me.
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וַיֹּאמְר֣וּ לָ֭אֵל ס֣וּר מִמֶּ֑נּוּ וְדַ֥עַת דְּ֝רָכֶ֗יךָ לֹ֣א חָפָֽצְנוּ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 21:14
- Job 22:17They said to God, 'Depart from us,' and 'What can the Almighty do to us?'
- Psalms 10:4In the pride of his face the wicked does not seek him; all his thoughts are, "There is no God."
- Luke 8:28When he saw Jesus, he cried out and fell down before him and said with a loud voice, "What have you to do with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg you, do not torment me."
- Habakkuk 1:15He brings all of them up with a hook; he drags them out with his net; he gathers them in his dragnet; so he rejoices and is glad.
- John 15:23Whoever hates me hates my Father also.
- Romans 8:7For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law; indeed, it cannot.
- Proverbs 1:7The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.
- John 3:19And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil.
- John 8:45But because I tell the truth, you do not believe me.
- Romans 1:28And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done.
- 2 Thessalonians 2:10and with all wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.
- 2 Timothy 4:3For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions,
Commentaries on Job 21:14
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 14They say unto God - This is the language of their conduct, though not directly of their lips. Depart from us - Let us alone; we do not trouble thee. Thy ways are painful; we do not like cross-bearing. Thy ways are spiritual; we wish to live after the flesh. We have learned to do our own will; we do not wish to study thine.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 14Therefore - This would seem to indicate that the “result” of their living in this manner was that they rejected God, or that one of the consequences of their being prospered would be that they would cast off his government and authority; that they renounced him “because” they were thus prosperous, or because they wished to train up their children in merriment and dancing. All this may be true in itself, but that idea is not in the Hebrew. That is simply…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 7-16Verses 7-16 Job says, Remarkable judgments are sometimes brought upon notorious sinners, but not always. Wherefore is it so? This is the day of God's patience; and, in some way or other, he makes use of the prosperity of the wicked to serve his own counsels, while it ripens them for ruin; but the chief reason is, because he will make it appear there is another world. These prospering sinners make light of God and religion, as if because they have so much…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1414. Therefore--rather, "And yet they are such as say," &c., that is, say, not in so many words, but virtually, by their conduct (so the Gergesenes, Mt 8:34). How differently the godly (Is 2:3). ways--The course of action, which God points out; as in Psa 50:23, Margin.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 21
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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