Job 21:14

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So they say to God,‘Turn away from us! We do not want to know your ways.

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  • Job 22:17 : 17 They were saying to God,‘Turn away from us,’ and‘What can the Almighty do to us?’
  • Prov 1:29 : 29 Because they hated moral knowledge, and did not choose to fear the LORD,
  • Hab 1:15 : 15 The Babylonian tyrant pulls them all up with a fishhook; he hauls them in with his throw net. When he catches them in his dragnet, he is very happy.
  • Luke 8:28 : 28 When he saw Jesus, he cried out, fell down before him, and shouted with a loud voice,“Leave me alone, Jesus, Son of the Most High God! I beg you, do not torment me!”
  • Luke 8:37 : 37 Then all the people of the Gerasenes and the surrounding region asked Jesus to leave them alone, for they were seized with great fear. So he got into the boat and left.
  • John 3:19-20 : 19 Now this is the basis for judging: that the light has come into the world and people loved the darkness rather than the light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For everyone who does evil deeds hates the light and does not come to the light, so that their deeds will not be exposed.
  • John 8:45-47 : 45 But because I am telling you the truth, you do not believe me. 46 Who among you can prove me guilty of any sin? If I am telling you the truth, why don’t you believe me? 47 The one who belongs to God listens and responds to God’s words. You don’t listen and respond, because you don’t belong to God.”
  • John 15:23-24 : 23 The one who hates me hates my Father too. 24 If I had not performed among them the miraculous deeds that no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin. But now they have seen the deeds and have hated both me and my Father.
  • Rom 1:28 : 28 And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what should not be done.
  • Rom 8:7 : 7 because the outlook of the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to the law of God, nor is it able to do so.
  • 2 Thess 2:10-12 : 10 and with every kind of evil deception directed against those who are perishing, because they found no place in their hearts for the truth so as to be saved. 11 Consequently God sends on them a deluding influence so that they will believe what is false. 12 And so all of them who have not believed the truth but have delighted in evil will be condemned.
  • 2 Tim 4:3-4 : 3 For there will be a time when people will not tolerate sound teaching. Instead, following their own desires, they will accumulate teachers for themselves, because they have an insatiable curiosity to hear new things. 4 And they will turn away from hearing the truth, but on the other hand they will turn aside to myths.
  • Ps 10:4 : 4 The wicked man is so arrogant he always thinks,“God won’t hold me accountable; he doesn’t care.”
  • Ps 10:11 : 11 He says to himself,“God overlooks it; he does not pay attention; he never notices.”
  • Prov 1:7 : 7 Introduction to the Theme of the Book Fearing the LORD is the beginning of discernment, but fools have despised wisdom and moral instruction.
  • Prov 1:22 : 22 “How long will you simpletons love naiveté? How long have mockers delighted in mockery? And how long will fools hate knowledge?

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