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Job 21:14

New Century Version

They say to God, ‘Leave us alone! We don’t want to know your ways.

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They said to God, ‘Leave us alone! The Almighty can do nothing to us.’

because they stopped following God and did not care about any of his ways.

But no one asks, ‘Where is God, my Maker, who gives us songs in the night,

The wicked think, “God has forgotten us. He doesn’t see what is happening.”

The wicked people are too proud. They do not look for God; there is no room for God in their thoughts.

I was angry with those people for forty years. I said, ‘They are not loyal to me and have not understood my ways.’

“You fools, how long will you be foolish? How long will you make fun of wisdom and hate knowledge?

It is because you rejected knowledge and did not choose to respect the Lord.

Knowledge begins with respect for the Lord, but fools hate wisdom and discipline.

Stop blocking our path. Get out of our way. Stop telling us about God, the Holy One of Israel.”

“People of Judah, pay attention to the word of the Lord: Have I been like a desert to the people of Israel or like a dark and dangerous land? Why do my people say, ‘We are free to wander. We won’t come to you anymore’?

Jeremiah, you live in the middle of lies. With their lies the people refuse to know me,” says the Lord.

The enemy brings them in with hooks. He catches them in his net and drags them in his fishnet. So he rejoices and sings for joy.

When he saw Jesus, he cried out and fell down before him. He said with a loud voice, “What do you want with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg you, don’t torture me!”

All the people of the Gerasene country asked Jesus to leave, because they were all very afraid. So Jesus got into the boat and went back to Galilee.

People did not think it was important to have a true knowledge of God. So God left them and allowed them to have their own worthless thinking and to do things they should not do.

When people’s thinking is controlled by the sinful self, they are against God, because they refuse to obey God’s law and really are not even able to obey God’s law.




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