Job 21:14

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

And they say to God, `Turn aside from us, And the knowledge of Thy ways We have not desired.

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  • Job 22:17 : 17 Those saying to God, `Turn aside from us,' And what doth the Mighty One to them?
  • Prov 1:29 : 29 Because that they have hated knowledge, And the fear of Jehovah have not chosen.
  • Hab 1:15 : 15 Each of them with a hook he hath brought up, He doth catch it in his net, and gathereth it in his drag, Therefore he doth joy and rejoice.
  • Luke 8:28 : 28 and having seen Jesus, and having cried out, he fell before him, and with a loud voice, said, `What -- to me and to thee, Jesus, Son of God Most High? I beseech thee, mayest thou not afflict me!'
  • Luke 8:37 : 37 And the whole multitude of the region of the Gadarenes round about asked him to go away from them, because with great fear they were pressed, and he having entered into the boat, did turn back.
  • John 3:19-20 : 19 `And this is the judgment, that the light hath come to the world, and men did love the darkness rather than the light, for their works were evil; 20 for every one who is doing wicked things hateth the light, and doth not come unto the light, that his works may not be detected;
  • John 8:45-47 : 45 `And because I say the truth, ye do not believe me. 46 Who of you doth convict me of sin? and if I speak truth, wherefore do ye not believe me? 47 he who is of God, the sayings of God he doth hear; because of this ye do not hear, because of God ye are not.'
  • John 15:23-24 : 23 `He who is hating me, doth hate also my Father; 24 if I did not do among them the works that no other hath done, they were not having sin, and now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father;
  • Rom 1:28 : 28 And, according as they did not approve of having God in knowledge, God gave them up to a disapproved mind, to do the things not seemly;
  • Rom 8:7 : 7 because the mind of the flesh `is' enmity to God, for to the law of God it doth not subject itself,
  • 2 Thess 2:10-12 : 10 and in all deceitfulness of the unrighteousness in those perishing, because the love of the truth they did not receive for their being saved, 11 and because of this shall God send to them a working of delusion, for their believing the lie, 12 that they may be judged -- all who did not believe the truth, but were well pleased in the unrighteousness.
  • 2 Tim 4:3-4 : 3 for there shall be a season when the sound teaching they will not suffer, but according to their own desires to themselves they shall heap up teachers -- itching in the hearing, 4 and indeed, from the truth the hearing they shall turn away, and to the fables they shall be turned aside.
  • Ps 10:4 : 4 The wicked according to the height of his face, inquireth not. `God is not!' `are' all his devices.
  • Ps 10:11 : 11 He said in his heart, `God hath forgotten, He hath hid His face, He hath never seen.'
  • Prov 1:7 : 7 Fear of Jehovah `is' a beginning of knowledge, Wisdom and instruction fools have despised!
  • Prov 1:22 : 22 `Till when, ye simple, do ye love simplicity? And have scorners their scorning desired? And do fools hate knowledge?

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  • Job 21:15-16
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    15 What `is' the Mighty One that we serve Him? And what do we profit when we meet with Him?'

    16 Lo, not in their hand `is' their good, (The counsel of the wicked Hath been far from me.)

  • 17 Those saying to God, `Turn aside from us,' And what doth the Mighty One to them?

  • Prov 1:28-30
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    76%

    28 Then they call me, and I do not answer, They seek me earnestly, and find me not.

    29 Because that they have hated knowledge, And the fear of Jehovah have not chosen.

    30 They have not consented to my counsel, They have despised all my reproof,

  • 11 And they have said, `How hath God known? And is there knowledge in the Most High?'

  • 27 Because that against right They have turned aside from after Him, And none of His ways have considered wisely,

  • 11 Turn aside from the way, decline from the path, Cause to cease from before us the Holy One of Israel.'

  • 21 Only these `are' tabernacles of the perverse, And this the place God hath not known.

  • 9 What hast thou known, and we know not? Understandest thou -- and it is not with us?

  • 13 They wear out in good their days, And in a moment `to' Sheol go down.

  • Rom 3:17-18
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    17 And a way of peace they did not know.

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

  • 9 For he hath said, `It doth not profit a man, When he delighteth himself with God.'

  • 22 To God doth `one' teach knowledge, And He the high doth judge?

  • 13 They have been among rebellious ones of light, They have not discerned His ways, Nor abode in His paths.

  • 1 Wherefore from the Mighty One Times have not been hidden, And those knowing Him have not seen His days.

  • Job 32:13-14
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    13 Lest ye say, We have found wisdom, God doth thrust him away, not man.

    14 And he hath not set in array words for me, And with your sayings I do not answer him.

  • 13 Wherefore hath the wicked despised God? He hath said in his heart, `It is not required.'

  • 4 Yea, thou dost make reverence void, And dost diminish meditation before God.

  • 21 Thy hand put far off from me, And Thy terror let not terrify me.

  • 7 And they say, `Jehovah doth not see, And the God of Jacob doth not consider.'

  • 21 Hath not their excellency been removed with them? They die, and not in wisdom!

  • 16 I have wasted away -- not to the age do I live. Cease from me, for my days `are' vanity.

  • 14 for we do surely die, and `are' as water which is running down to the earth, which is not gathered, and God doth not accept a person, and hath devised devices in that the outcast is not outcast by Him.

  • 4 And I -- I said, `Surely these `are' poor, They have been foolish, For they have not known the way of Jehovah, The judgment of their God.

  • 14 Ye have said, `A vain thing to serve God! And what gain when we kept His charge? And when we have gone in black, Because of Jehovah of Hosts?

  • 18 They have not known, nor do they understand, For He hath daubed their eyes from seeing, Their heart from acting wisely.

  • 21 because, having known God they did not glorify `Him' as God, nor gave thanks, but were made vain in their reasonings, and their unintelligent heart was darkened,

  • 11 There is none who is understanding, there is none who is seeking after God.

  • 15 `Turn aside -- unclean,' they called to them, `Turn aside, turn aside, touch not,' For they fled -- yea, they have wandered, They have said among nations: `They do not add to sojourn.'

  • 4 Judgment let us choose for ourselves, Let us know among ourselves what `is' good.

  • 9 (For of yesterday we `are', and we know not, For a shadow `are' our days on earth.)

  • 4 That day -- let it be darkness, Let not God require it from above, Nor let light shine upon it.

  • 9 Our ensigns we have not seen, There is no more a prophet, Nor with us is one knowing how long.

  • 35 Job -- not with knowledge doth he speak, And his words `are' not with wisdom.

  • 3 Nor have I learned wisdom, Yet the knowledge of Holy Ones I know.

  • 1 To the Overseer. -- By David. A fool hath said in his heart, `God is not;' They have done corruptly, They have done abominable actions, There is not a doer of good.

  • 2 Who `is' this -- darkening counsel, By words without knowledge?

  • 13 And Jehovah saith: Because of their forsaking My law that I set before them, And they have not hearkened to My voice nor walked in it,

  • 28 For a nation lost to counsels `are' they, And there is no understanding in them.

  • 7 Go from before a foolish man, Or thou hast not known the lips of knowledge.

  • 4 Have all working iniquity not known? Those consuming my people have eaten bread, Jehovah they have not called.

  • 19 Let us know what we say to Him, We set not in array because of darkness.

  • 16 And to the wicked hath God said: What to thee -- to recount My statutes? That thou liftest up My covenant on thy mouth?

  • 5 They knew not, nor do they understand, In darkness they walk habitually, Moved are all the foundations of earth.

  • 13 Who are forsaking paths of uprightness, To walk in ways of darkness,

  • 28 And, according as they did not approve of having God in knowledge, God gave them up to a disapproved mind, to do the things not seemly;