Job 21:14
Good News Translation
The wicked tell God to leave them alone; they don't want to know his will for their lives.

New Revised Standard Version
They say to God, ‘Leave us alone! We do not desire to know your ways.

Contemporary English Version
Those who are evil say to God All-Powerful, "Leave us alone! Don't bother us with your teachings.

New American Bible
Yet they say to God, “Depart from us, for we have no desire to know your ways!

Douay-Rheims Bible
Who have said to God: Depart from us, we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Who have said to God: Depart from us, we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.

they say

Job 22:17 Who said to God: Depart from us: and looked upon the Almighty as if he could do nothing:

Psalm 10:4,11 The sinner hath provoked the Lord according to the multitude of his wrath he will not seek him: . . .

Luke 8:28,37 And when he saw Jesus, he fell down before him. And crying out with a loud voice, he said: What have I to do with thee, Jesus, Son of the most high God? I beseech thee, do not torment me. . . .

Habakkuk 1:15 He lifted up all them with his hook, he drew them in his drag, and gathered them into his net: for this he will be glad and rejoice.

John 15:23,24 He that hateth me hateth my Father also. . . .

Romans 8:7 Because the wisdom of the flesh is an enemy to God. For it is not subject to the law of God: neither can it be.

for we

Proverbs 1:7,22,29 My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: . . .

John 3:19,20 And this is the judgment: Because the light is come into the world and men loved darkness rather than the light: for their works were evil. . . .

John 8:45-47 But if I say the truth, you believe me not. . . .

Romans 1:28 And as they liked not to have God in their knowledge, God delivered them up to a reprobate sense, to do those things which are not convenient.

2 Thessalonians 2:10-12 And in all seduction of iniquity to them that perish: because they receive not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. Therefore God shall send them the operation of error, to believe lying: . . .

2 Timothy 4:3,4 For there shall be a time when they will not endure sound doctrine but, according to their own desires, they will heap to themselves teachers having itching ears: . . .

Context
Job: God will Punish the Wicked
13They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment they go down to hell. 14Who have said to God: Depart from us, we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.15Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what doth it profit us if we pray to him?…
Cross References
Job 22:17
Who said to God: Depart from us: and looked upon the Almighty as if he could do nothing:

Job 34:27
Who as it were on purpose have revolted from him, and would not understand all his ways:

Job 35:10
And he hath not said: Where is God, who made me, who hath given songs in the night?

Proverbs 1:29
Nor consented to my counsel, but despised all my reproof.

Isaiah 30:11
Take away from me the way, turn away the path from me, let the Holy One of Israel cease from before us.

Jeremiah 9:6
Thy habitation is in the midst of deceit: through deceit they have refused to know me, saith the Lord.

Job 21:13
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