Job 21:14
12 singing to the tambourine and lyre and making merry at the sound of the flute.
13 They spend their days in prosperity and go down to Sheol in peace.
Yet they say to God: ‘Leave us alone! For we have no desire to know Your ways.
15 Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him, and what would we gain if we pray to Him?’
16 Still, their prosperity is not in their own hands, so I stay far from the counsel of the wicked.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Yet they say to God: ‘Leave us alone! For we have no desire to know Your ways.
- KJV
- Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.
- WEB
- They tell God, ‘Depart from us, for we don’t want to know about your ways.
- ASV
- And they say unto God, Depart from us; For we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.
- DARBY
- And they say unto God, Depart from us, for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways!
- BLB
- And they said to God, ‘Turn away from us! For we do not delight to know Your ways.
- ÅB
- Og dog sa de til Gud: Vik fra oss! Vi har ikke lyst til å kjenne dine veier.
- OTB
- Likevel sier de til Gud: ‘Gå bort fra oss!
Vi har ingen lyst til å kjenne dine veier. - B1930
- Og dog sa de til Gud: Vik fra oss! Vi har ikke lyst til å kjenne dine veier.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Job 22:17
They said to God, ‘Depart from us. What can the Almighty do to us?’
Read in contextRomans 8:7
because the mind of the flesh is hostile to God: It does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so.
Read in contextPsalms 10:4
In his pride the wicked man does not seek Him; in all his schemes there is no God.
Read in context2 Thessalonians 2:10–12
and with every wicked deception directed against those who are perishing, because they refused the love of the truth that would have saved them.
Read in contextJohn 15:23–24
Whoever hates Me hates My Father as well.
Read in contextProverbs 1:29
For they hated knowledge and chose not to fear the LORD.
Read in contextJohn 3:19–20
And 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.
Read in context2 Timothy 4:3–4
For 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.
Read in context