Job 21:14

Authorized King James Version (1611)

Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.

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  • Job 22:17 : 17 Which said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them?
  • Prov 1:29 : 29 For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:
  • Hab 1:15 : 15 They take up all of them with the angle, they catch them in their net, and gather them in their drag: therefore they rejoice and are glad.
  • Luke 8:28 : 28 When he saw Jesus, he cried out, and fell down before him, and with a loud voice said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, [thou] Son of God most high? I beseech thee, torment me not.
  • Luke 8:37 : 37 Then the whole multitude of the country of the Gadarenes round about besought him to depart from them; for they were taken with great fear: and he went up into the ship, and returned back again.
  • John 3:19-20 : 19 ‹And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.› 20 ‹For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.›
  • John 8:45-47 : 45 ‹And because I tell› [you] ‹the truth, ye believe me not.› 46 ¶ ‹Which of you convinceth me of sin? And if I say the truth, why do ye not believe me?› 47 ‹He that is of God heareth God's words: ye therefore hear› [them] ‹not, because ye are not of God.›
  • John 15:23-24 : 23 ‹He that hateth me hateth my Father also.› 24 ‹If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.›
  • Rom 1:28 : 28 And even as they did not like to retain God in [their] knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
  • Rom 8:7 : 7 Because the carnal mind [is] enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
  • 2 Thess 2:10-12 : 10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: 12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
  • 2 Tim 4:3-4 : 3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; 4 And they shall turn away [their] ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
  • Ps 10:4 : 4 The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek [after God]: God [is] not in all his thoughts.
  • Ps 10:11 : 11 He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never see [it].
  • Prov 1:7 : 7 ¶ The fear of the LORD [is] the beginning of knowledge: [but] fools despise wisdom and instruction.
  • Prov 1:22 : 22 How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 21:15-16
    2 verses
    82%

    15 What [is] the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?

    16 Lo, their good [is] not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

  • 17 Which said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them?

  • Prov 1:28-30
    3 verses
    76%

    28 Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:

    29 For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:

    30 They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.

  • 11 And they say, How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High?

  • 27 Because they turned back from him, and would not consider any of his ways:

  • 11 Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.

  • 21 Surely such [are] the dwellings of the wicked, and this [is] the place [of him that] knoweth not God.

  • 9 What knowest thou, that we know not? [what] understandest thou, which [is] not in us?

  • 13 They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.

  • Rom 3:17-18
    2 verses
    70%

    17 And the way of peace have they not known:

    18 There is no fear of God before their eyes.

  • 9 For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.

  • 22 Shall [any] teach God knowledge? seeing he judgeth those that are high.

  • 13 ¶ They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.

  • 1 ¶ Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?

  • Job 32:13-14
    2 verses
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    13 Lest ye should say, We have found out wisdom: God thrusteth him down, not man.

    14 Now he hath not directed [his] words against me: neither will I answer him with your speeches.

  • 13 Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require [it].

  • 4 Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God.

  • 21 Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid.

  • 7 Yet they say, The LORD shall not see, neither shall the God of Jacob regard [it].

  • 21 Doth not their excellency [which is] in them go away? they die, even without wisdom.

  • 16 I loathe [it]; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days [are] vanity.

  • 14 For we must needs die, and [are] as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect [any] person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him.

  • 4 Therefore I said, Surely these [are] poor; they are foolish: for they know not the way of the LORD, [nor] the judgment of their God.

  • 14 Ye 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?

  • 18 They have not known nor understood: for he hath shut their eyes, that they cannot see; [and] their hearts, that they cannot understand.

  • 21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified [him] not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.

  • 11 There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.

  • 15 They cried unto them, Depart ye; [it is] unclean; depart, depart, touch not: when they fled away and wandered, they said among the heathen, They shall no more sojourn [there].

  • 4 Let us choose to us judgment: let us know among ourselves what [is] good.

  • 9 (For we [are but of] yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth [are] a shadow:)

  • 4 Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.

  • 9 We see not our signs: [there is] no more any prophet: neither [is there] among us any that knoweth how long.

  • 35 Job hath spoken without knowledge, and his words [were] without wisdom.

  • 3 I neither learned wisdom, nor have the knowledge of the holy.

  • 1 ¶ To the chief Musician, [A Psalm] of David. The fool hath said in his heart, [There is] no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, [there is] none that doeth good.

  • 2 Who [is] this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?

  • 13 And the LORD saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein;

  • 28 For they [are] a nation void of counsel, neither [is there any] understanding in them.

  • 7 ¶ Go from the presence of a foolish man, when thou perceivest not [in him] the lips of knowledge.

  • 4 ¶ Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people [as] they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.

  • 19 Teach us what we shall say unto him; [for] we cannot order [our speech] by reason of darkness.

  • 16 ¶ But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or [that] thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth?

  • 5 They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course.

  • 13 Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;

  • 28 And even as they did not like to retain God in [their] knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;