They said to God, ‘Leave us alone,’ and ‘What can the Almighty do to us?’
Job 21:14 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 They say to God, ‘Leave us alone! We do not desire to know your ways. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; For we desire not the knowledge of thy ways. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Yet they say to God, Depart from us, for we do not desire the knowledge of Your ways. American Standard Version (1901) And they say unto God, Depart from us; For we desire not the knowledge of thy ways. Common English Bible They say to God, “Turn away from us; we take no pleasure in knowing your ways; Catholic Public Domain Version Who has said to God, "Depart from us, for we do not want the knowledge of your ways. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Who have said to God: Depart from us. We desire not the knowledge of thy ways. |
They said to God, ‘Leave us alone,’ and ‘What can the Almighty do to us?’
because they turned aside from following him and had no regard for any of his ways,
But no one says, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives strength in the night,
They think in their heart, “God has forgotten; he has hidden his face; he will never see it.”
In the pride of their countenance the wicked say, “God will not seek it out”; all their thoughts are, “There is no God.”
For forty years I loathed that generation and said, “They are a people whose hearts go astray, and they do not regard my ways.”
“How long, O simple ones, will you love being simple? How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing and fools hate knowledge?
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.
leave the way; turn aside from the path; let us hear no more about the Holy One of Israel.”
And you, O generation, behold the word of the Lord! Have I been a wilderness to Israel or a land of thick darkness? Why then do my people say, “We are free; we will come to you no more”?
Oppression upon oppression, deceit upon deceit! They refuse to know me, says the Lord.
He brings all of them up with a hook; he drags them out with his net; he gathers them in his seine, so he rejoices and exults.
When he saw Jesus, he cried out and fell down before him, shouting, “What have you to do with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg you, do not torment me,”
Then the whole throng of people of the surrounding region of the Gerasenes asked Jesus to leave them, for they were seized with great fear. So he got into the boat and returned.
And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them over to an unfit mind and to do things that should not be done.
For this reason the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God’s law—indeed, it cannot,