Job 22:17

World English Bible (2000)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 21:14-15 : 14 They tell God, 'Depart from us, for we don't want to know about your ways. 15 What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?'
  • Ps 4:6 : 6 Many say, "Who will show us any good?" Yahweh, let the light of your face shine on us.
  • Isa 30:11 : 11 Get out of the way. Turn aside from 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 followed his instructions, and that we have walked mournfully before Yahweh of Armies?
  • Matt 8:29 : 29 Behold, they cried out, saying, "What do we have to do with you, Jesus, Son of God? Have you come here to torment us before the time?"
  • Matt 8:34 : 34 Behold, all the city came out to meet Jesus. When they saw him, they begged that he would depart from their borders.
  • Rom 1:28 : 28 Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;
  • Job 21:10 : 10 Their bulls breed without fail. Their cows calve, and don't miscarry.

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  • Job 21:14-16
    3 verses
    82%

    14 They tell God, 'Depart from us, for we don't want to know about your ways.

    15 What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?'

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

  • Job 22:15-16
    2 verses
    76%

    15 Will you keep the old way, which wicked men have trodden,

    16 who were snatched away before their time, whose foundation was poured out as a stream,

  • 18 Yet he filled their houses with good things, but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

  • 2 For what is the portion from God above, and the heritage from the Almighty on high?

  • 11 They say, "How does God know? Is there knowledge in the Most High?"

  • Job 9:12-13
    2 verses
    70%

    12 Behold, he snatches away. Who can hinder him? Who will ask him, 'What are you doing?'

    13 "God will not withdraw his anger. The helpers of Rahab stoop under him.

  • 23 We can't reach the Almighty. He is exalted in power. In justice and great righteousness, he will not oppress.

  • Job 34:9-10
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    70%

    9 For he has said, 'It profits a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.'

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

  • 22 "Shall any teach God knowledge, since he judges those who are high?

  • 27 because they turned aside from following him, and wouldn't pay attention to any of his ways,

  • 11 Get out of the way. Turn aside from the path. Cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us."

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

  • 11 Haven't you rejected us, God? You don't go forth, God, with our armies.

  • 22 For it hurls at him, and does not spare, as he flees away from his hand.

  • 11 Then he sweeps by like the wind, and goes on. He is indeed guilty, whose strength is his god."

  • Job 11:7-8
    2 verses
    68%

    7 "Can you fathom the mystery of God? Or can you probe the limits of the Almighty?

    8 They are high as heaven. What can you do? They are deeper than Sheol. What can you know?

  • 2 "Shall he who argues contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it."

  • 4 You who tear yourself in your anger, shall the earth be forsaken for you? Or shall the rock be removed out of its place?

  • 19 Yes, they spoke against God. They said, "Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?

  • 21 withdraw your hand far from me; and don't let your terror make me afraid.

  • 21 Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous. This is the place of him who doesn't know God."

  • 13 Why does the wicked person condemn God, and say in his heart, "God won't call me into account?"

  • 16 But to the wicked God says, "What right do you have to declare my statutes, that you have taken my covenant on your lips,

  • 15 Depart! they cried to them, Unclean! depart, depart, don't touch! When they fled away and wandered, men said among the nations, They shall no more live [here].

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

  • 37 He will say, "Where are their gods, The rock in which they took refuge;

  • 23 Who has prescribed his way for him? Or who can say, 'You have committed unrighteousness?'

  • 68%

    3 "Let's break their bonds apart, and cast their cords from us."

  • Job 8:3-4
    2 verses
    68%

    3 Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness?

    4 If your children have sinned against him, He has delivered them into the hand of their disobedience.

  • 10 If he passes by, or confines, or convenes a court, then who can oppose him?

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

  • 13 Who put him in charge of the earth? or who has appointed him over the whole world?

  • 13 "This is the portion of a wicked man with God, the heritage of oppressors, which they receive from the Almighty.

  • 10 Will he delight himself in the Almighty, and call on God at all times?

  • 15 Let death come suddenly on them. Let them go down alive into Sheol. For wickedness is in their dwelling, in the midst of them.

  • 4 Yes, you do away with fear, and hinder devotion before God.

  • 11 behold, how they reward us, to come to cast us out of your possession, which you have given us to inherit.

  • 19 God, who is enthroned forever, will hear, and answer them. Selah. They never change, who don't fear God.

  • 9 Who knows whether God will not turn and relent, and turn away from his fierce anger, so that we might not perish?"

  • 10 Haven't you, God, rejected us? You don't go out with our armies, God.

  • 29 because they hated knowledge, and didn't choose the fear of Yahweh.

  • 14 "To him who is ready to faint, kindness should be shown from his friend; even to him who forsakes the fear of the Almighty.

  • 12 who said, "Let us take possession of God's pasturelands."