God’s Word Translation
Job 21:14
14But they say to God, ‘Leave us alone. We don’t want to know 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.
- English Standard Version (ESV)They say to God, 'Depart from us! We do not desire the knowledge of 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.
Context of Job 21:14
12They sing with the tambourine and lyre, and they are happy with the music of the flute. 13They spend their days in happiness, and they go peacefully to the grave. But they say to God, ‘Leave us alone. We don’t want to know your ways. 15Who is the Almighty that we should serve him? What do we gain if we pray to him?’ 16Anyhow, isn’t their happiness in their own power? (The plan of the wicked is foreign to my way of thinking.)
Read all of Job 21Job 21:14 word by word
וַיֹּאמְר֣וּ לָ֭אֵל ס֣וּר מִמֶּ֑נּוּ וְדַ֥עַת דְּ֝רָכֶ֗יךָ לֹ֣א חָפָֽצְנוּ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 21:14
- Job 22:17They told God, ‘Leave us alone! What can the Almighty do for us?’
- Psalms 10:4He turns up his nose ⌞and says⌟, “God doesn’t care.” His every thought ⌞concludes⌟, “There is no God.”
- Luke 8:28When he saw Jesus, he shouted, fell in front of him, and said in a loud voice, “Why are you bothering me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg you not to torture me!”
- Habakkuk 1:15The Babylonians pull them all up with fishhooks, drag them away in nets, and gather them in dragnets. So they rejoice and are happy.
- John 15:23The person who hates me also hates my Father.
- Romans 8:7This is so because the corrupt nature has a hostile attitude toward God. It refuses to place itself under the authority of God’s standards because it can’t.
- Proverbs 1:7The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge. Stubborn fools despise wisdom and discipline.
- John 3:19This is why people are condemned: The light came into the world. Yet, people loved the dark rather than the light because their actions were evil.
- John 8:45So you don’t believe me because I tell the truth.
- Romans 1:28And because they thought it was worthless to acknowledge God, God allowed their own immoral minds to control them. So they do these indecent things.
- 2 Thessalonians 2:10He will use everything that God disapproves of to deceive those who are dying, those who refused to love the truth that would save them.
- 2 Timothy 4:3A time will come when people will not listen to accurate teachings. Instead, they will follow their own desires and surround themselves with teachers who tell them what they want to hear.
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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