Job 21:14
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Yet they say to God: ‘Leave us alone! For we have no desire to know Your ways.”
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“Yet they say to God: ‘Leave us alone! For we have no desire to know Your ways.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.”
King James Version · Public Domain“And they say unto God, Depart from us; For we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“And they say to God, `Turn aside from us, And the knowledge of Thy ways We have not desired.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Job 21:14 — 19 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 22:17They said to God, ‘Depart from us. What can the Almighty do to us?’
- Psalms 10:4In his pride the wicked man does not seek Him; in all his schemes there is no God.
- Psalms 10:11He says to himself, “God has forgotten; He hides His face and never sees.”
- Psalms 95:10For forty years I was angry with that generation, and I said, “They are a people whose hearts go astray, and they have not known My ways.”
- Proverbs 1:7The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline.
- Proverbs 1:22“How long, O simple ones, will you love your simple ways? How long will scoffers delight in their scorn and fools hate knowledge?
- Proverbs 1:29For they hated knowledge and chose not to fear the LORD.
- Isaiah 30:11Get out of the way; turn off the road. Rid us of the Holy One of Israel!”
- Jeremiah 2:31You people of this generation, consider the word of the LORD: “Have I been a wilderness to Israel or a land of dense darkness? Why do My people say, ‘We are free to roam; we will come to You no more’?
- Habakkuk 1:15The foe pulls all of them up with a hook; he catches them in his dragnet, and gathers them in his fishing net; so he rejoices gladly.
- Luke 8:28When the man saw Jesus, he cried out and fell down before Him, shouting in a loud voice, “What do You want with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg You not to torture me!”
- Luke 8:37Then all the people of the region of the Gerasenes asked Jesus to depart from them, because great fear had taken hold of them. So He got into the boat and started back.
- John 3:19And this is the verdict: The Light has come into the world, but men loved the darkness rather than the Light because their deeds were evil.
- John 8:45But because I speak the truth, you do not believe Me!
- John 15:23Whoever hates Me hates My Father as well.
- Romans 1:28Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.
- Romans 8:7because the mind of the flesh is hostile to God: It does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so.
- 2 Thessalonians 2:10and with every wicked deception directed against those who are perishing, because they refused the love of the truth that would have saved them.
- 2 Timothy 4:3For the time will come when men will not tolerate sound doctrine, but with itching ears they will gather around themselves teachers to suit their own desires.
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