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Job 21:14
They tell God, 'Depart from us, for we do not want to know about your ways.
Job 21:14 · New Heart English Bible
Job 21:14 in other translations
Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.
Yet they say to God: ‘Leave us alone! For we have no desire to know Your ways.
They tell God, ‘Depart from us, for we don’t want to know about your ways.
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In context
11 They send forth their little ones like a flock. Their children dance.
12 They sing to the tambourine and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the pipe.
13 They spend their days in prosperity. In an instant they go down to Sheol.
14 They tell God, 'Depart from us, for we do not want to know about your ways.
15 What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?'
16 Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand. The counsel of the wicked is far from me.
17 "How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out, that their calamity comes on them, that God distributes sorrows in his anger?
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