Job 22:17

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Job 21:14-15 : 14 Therefore they say to God, 'Depart from us, for we do not desire the knowledge of Your ways.' 15 Who is the Almighty that we should serve Him? And what profit do we have if we pray to Him?
  • Ps 4:6 : 6 There are many that say, Who will show us any good? LORD, lift up the light of your countenance upon us.
  • Isa 30:11 : 11 Get out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.
  • Mal 3:14 : 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?'.
  • Matt 8:29 : 29 And behold, they cried out, saying, What have we to do with you, Jesus, Son of God? Have you come here to torment us before the time?
  • Matt 8:34 : 34 And behold, the whole city came out to meet Jesus: and when they saw him, they begged him to depart out of their region.
  • 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;
  • Job 21:10 : 10 Their bull breeds and does not fail; their cow calves and does not miscarry.

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  • Job 21:14-16
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    14Therefore they say to God, 'Depart from us, for we do not desire the knowledge of Your ways.'

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

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

  • Job 22:15-16
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    15Have you marked the old way which wicked men have trodden,

    16Who were cut down before their time, whose foundations were swept away by a flood?

  • Job 22:18
    74%

    18Yet He filled their houses with good things; but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

  • Job 31:2
    71%

    2For what portion of God is there from above? And what inheritance of the Almighty from on high?

  • Ps 73:11
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    11And they say, How does God know? And is there knowledge in the Most High?

  • Job 9:12-13
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    12Behold, He takes away, who can hinder Him? Who will say to Him, What are you doing?

    13If God does not withdraw His anger, the proud helpers stoop under Him.

  • Job 37:23
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    23Touching the Almighty, we cannot find him out; he is excellent in power, in judgment, and in abundant justice; he will not oppress.

  • Job 34:9-10
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    9For he has said, It profits a man nothing to delight himself in God.

    10Therefore listen to me, you men of understanding: far be it from God to do wickedness, and from the Almighty to commit iniquity.

  • Job 21:22
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    22Can anyone teach God knowledge, seeing He judges those who are high?

  • Job 34:27
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    27Because they turned back from Him and would not consider any of His ways.

  • Isa 30:11
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    11Get out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.

  • Job 15:13
    68%

    13That you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your mouth?

  • Ps 108:11
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    11Will not you, O God, who have cast us off? And will not you, O God, go forth with our hosts?

  • Job 27:22
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    22For God will hurl upon him, and not spare; he would gladly flee out of His hand.

  • Hab 1:11
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    11Then his mind changes, and he transgresses; he commits offense, ascribing this power to his god.

  • Job 11:7-8
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    7Can you by searching find out God? Can you find out the Almighty to perfection?

    8It is as high as heaven; what can you do? Deeper than the grave; what can you know?

  • Job 40:2
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    2Shall he who contends with the Almighty instruct him? He who reproves God, let him answer it.

  • Job 18:4
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    4He tears himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for you? and shall the rock be removed out of its place?

  • Ps 78:19
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    19Yes, they spoke against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?

  • Job 13:21
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    21Withdraw your hand far from me, and let not your dread make me afraid.

  • Job 18:21
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    21Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him who does not know God.

  • Ps 10:13
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    13Why does the wicked despise God? He has said in his heart, You will not require it.

  • Ps 50:16
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    16But to the wicked God says, What right do you have to declare My statutes, or to take My covenant in your mouth?

  • Lam 4:15
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    15They 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.'

  • Mal 2:17
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    17You have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet you say, How have we wearied him? When you say, Everyone that does evil is good in the sight of the LORD, and he delights in them; or, Where is the God of justice?

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    37And he shall say, Where are their gods, their rock in whom they trusted,

  • Job 36:23
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    23Who has ordered him his way? or who can say, You have done wrong?

  • Ps 2:3
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    3Let us break their bonds apart, and cast away their cords from us.

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    3Does God pervert judgment, or does the Almighty pervert justice?

    4If your children have sinned against Him, and He has cast them away for their transgression;

  • Job 11:10
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    10If He passes by, and imprisons, or gathers together, then who can stop Him?

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    8Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity; for the LORD has heard the voice of my weeping.

  • Job 34:13
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    13Who has given Him charge over the earth? Or who has appointed the whole world?

  • Job 27:13
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    13This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, which they shall receive from the Almighty.

  • Job 27:10
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    10Will he delight himself in the Almighty? Will he always call upon God?

  • Ps 55:15
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    15Let death seize upon them, and let them go down alive into hell, for wickedness is in their dwellings and among them.

  • Job 15:4
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    4Yes, you cast off fear, and restrain prayer before God.

  • 2 Chr 20:11
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    11See, how they repay us, to come to cast us out of Your possession, which You have given us to inherit.

  • Ps 55:19
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    19God will hear and afflict them, even He who abides from of old. Selah. Because they do not change, they do not fear God.

  • Jonah 3:9
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    9Who can tell if God will turn and relent, and turn away from His fierce anger, so that we do not perish?

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    10Will You not, O God, who had cast us off? And You, O God, who did not go out with our armies?

  • Prov 1:29
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    29Because they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of the LORD;

  • Job 6:14
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    14To him who is afflicted, pity should be shown by his friend; yet he forsakes the fear of the Almighty.

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    12Who said, Let us take for ourselves the houses of God in possession.