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Job 21:14
14Yet they say to God, ‘Leave us alone! We have no desire 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 to the tambourine and harp and rejoice at the sound of the flute. 13They spend their days in prosperity, and in a moment go down to Sheol. Yet they say to God, ‘Leave us alone! We have no desire to know Your ways. 15Who is Shaddai that we should serve Him? What would we gain if we pray to Him?’ 16Look, their prosperity is not in their own hands; the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
Read all of Job 21Job 21:14 word by word
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, ‘Leave us alone! What can Shaddai do to us?’
- Psalms 10:4The wicked one, with his nose in the air, never seeks Him. All his thoughts are: “There is no God.”
- Luke 8:28Seeing Yeshua, he cried out and fell down before Yeshua, and with a loud voice said, “What’s between You and me, Yeshua, Ben El Elyon? I’m begging You, do not torment me!”
- Habakkuk 1:15He brings up all with hook in jaw, drags away in his dragnet, or gathers with his fishing-net. Therefore he rejoices with glee.
- John 15:23“He who hates Me also hates My Father.
- Romans 8:7For the mindset of the flesh is hostile toward God, for it does not submit itself to the law of God—for it cannot.
- Proverbs 1:7The fear of Adonai is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline.
- John 3:19“Now this is the judgment, that the light has come into the world and men loved the darkness instead of the light, because their deeds were evil.
- John 8:45“But because I speak the truth, you do not believe Me.
- Romans 1:28And just as they did not see fit to recognize God, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what is not fitting.
- 2 Thessalonians 2:10and with every kind of wicked deception toward those who are perishing. They perish because they did not accept the love of the truth so as to be saved.
- 2 Timothy 4:3For the time will come when they will not put up with sound instruction, but they will pile up for themselves teachers in keeping with their own desires, to have their ears tickled.
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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