Job 21:14

KJV1611 – Modern English

Therefore they say to God, 'Depart from us, for we do not desire the knowledge of Your ways.'

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  • Job 22:17 : 17 They said to God, 'Depart from us,' and 'What can the Almighty do for us?'
  • Prov 1:29 : 29 Because they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of the LORD;
  • Hab 1:15 : 15 They take up all of them with a hook, they catch them in their net, and gather them in their dragnet; 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 you, Jesus, Son of God most high? I beg you, torment me not.
  • Luke 8:37 : 37 Then the whole multitude of the country of the Gadarenes round about begged him to depart from them; for they were seized with great fear: and he went up into the ship, and returned back again.
  • John 3:19-20 : 19 This is the condemnation, that light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 Everyone who does evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed.
  • John 8:45-47 : 45 And because I tell you the truth, you do not believe me. 46 Which of you convicts me of sin? And if I tell the truth, why do you not believe me? 47 He who is of God hears God's words: you therefore do not hear them, because you are not of God.
  • John 15:23-24 : 23 He who hates me hates my Father also. 24 If I had not done among them the works which no other man did, they would not have sin; but now they have 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 debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting;
  • Rom 8:7 : 7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God, for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be.
  • 2 Thess 2:10-12 : 10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they did not receive 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 condemned who did not believe 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 according to their own desires, they will gather to themselves teachers, having itching ears; 4 And they will turn their ears away from the truth and be turned aside to 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 has said in his heart, God has forgotten; He hides 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, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? And the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?

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  • Job 21:15-16
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    82%

    15 Who is the Almighty that we should serve Him? And what profit do we have if we pray to Him?

    16 Indeed, their prosperity is not in their hand; the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

  • 17 They said to God, 'Depart from us,' and 'What can the Almighty do for us?'

  • Prov 1:28-30
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    28 Then they will call upon me, but I will not answer; they will seek me diligently, but they will not find me;

    29 Because they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of the LORD;

    30 They would have none of my counsel and despised all my rebuke.

  • 11 And they say, How does 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 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 who does not know God.

  • 9 What do you know that we don't know? What do you understand that is not in us?

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

  • Rom 3:17-18
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    17 'And the way of peace they have not known:'

    18 'There is no fear of God before their eyes.'

  • 9 For he has said, It profits a man nothing to delight himself in God.

  • 22 Can anyone teach God knowledge, seeing He judges those who are high?

  • 13 They are among those who rebel against the light; they know not its ways, nor abide in its paths.

  • 1 Why, since times are not hidden from the Almighty, do those who know Him not see His days?

  • Job 32:13-14
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    13 Lest you should say, We have found out wisdom: God will thrust him down, not man.

    14 Now he has not directed his words against me, nor will I answer him with your speeches.

  • 13 Why does the wicked despise God? He has said in his heart, You will not require it.

  • 4 Yes, you cast off fear, and restrain prayer before God.

  • 21 Withdraw your hand far from me, and let not your dread make me afraid.

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

  • 21 Does not their excellence which is in them vanish away? They die, even without wisdom.

  • 16 I loathe it; I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are vanity.

  • 14 For we must die, and are as water spilled on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither does God take away life, but he devises means, so that his banished are not expelled from him.

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

  • 14 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?'.

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

  • 21 Because, although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened.

  • 11 'There is none who understands, there is none who seeks after God.'

  • 15 They cried to them, 'Depart! Unclean! Depart, depart, do not touch!' When they fled and wandered, they said among the nations, 'They shall no longer dwell there.'

  • 4 Let us choose for ourselves what is right; let us know among ourselves what is good.

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

  • 4 Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, nor let the light shine upon it.

  • 9 We do not see our signs: there is no more any prophet; neither is there among us any who knows how long.

  • 35 Job has spoken without knowledge, and his words were without wisdom.

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

  • 1 The fool has said in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt, they have done abominable deeds, there is none who does good.

  • 2 Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge?

  • 13 And the LORD says, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, nor walked in it;

  • 28 For they are a nation void of counsel, nor is there any understanding in them.

  • 7 Leave the presence of a foolish man, when you do not perceive in him the lips of knowledge.

  • 4 Do all the workers of iniquity have no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and do not call upon the LORD?

  • 19 Teach us what we shall say to him, for we cannot arrange our speech because of darkness.

  • 16 But to the wicked God says, What right do you have to declare My statutes, or to take My covenant in your mouth?

  • 5 They do not know, nor do they understand; they walk in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are shaken.

  • 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 debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting;