- Bible
- Job
- Chapter 21
- Verse 14
Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.
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Gill's Exposition
What is the Almighty, that we should serve him?.... "Who is he" (t)? as some render it; or what is there in him, in his nature, in his excellencies and perfections, that should oblige us to serve him?…
Barnes' Notes
Therefore - This would seem to indicate that the “result” of their living in this manner was that they rejected God, or that one of the consequences of their being prospered would be that they would…
All Job's three friends, in their last discourses, had been very copious in describing the miserable condition of a wicked man in this world. "It is true," says Job, "remarkable judgments are…
All this joy and prosperity they enjoyed though they had bidden God depart from them and renounced His service.
Therefore they say Rather, though (lit. and) they said. Their godlessness was not merely…
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