Job 21:14
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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.

Lexicon
Yet they say
וַיֹּאמְר֣וּ (way·yō·mə·rū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 559: To utter, say

to God:
לָ֭אֵל (lā·’êl)
Preposition | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 410: Strength -- as adjective, mighty, the Almighty

‘Leave us alone!
ס֣וּר (sūr)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5493: To turn aside

For we have no
לֹ֣א (lō)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's Hebrew 3808: Not, no

desire
חָפָֽצְנוּ׃ (ḥā·p̄ā·ṣə·nū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 2654: To incline to, to bend, to be pleased with, desire

to know
וְדַ֥עַת (wə·ḏa·‘aṯ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's Hebrew 1847: Knowledge

Your ways.
דְּ֝רָכֶ֗יךָ (də·rā·ḵe·ḵā)
Noun - common plural construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1870: A road, a course of life, mode of action


Additional Translations
Yet they say to God: ‘Leave us alone! For we have no desire to know Your ways.Therefore they say to God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of your ways.

And they say unto God, Depart from us; For we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.

Yet such a man says to the Lord, Depart from me; I desire not to know thy ways.

And they say unto God, Depart from us, for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways!

Yet they said unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.

Therefore they say to God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.

They tell God, 'Depart from us, for we don't want to know about your ways.

And they say to God, 'Turn aside from us, And the knowledge of Thy ways We have not desired.
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