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Job 21:14,15

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 that of passion, it was almost formal and reasoned. Coverdale's rendering of the words, Who is the Almighty? is quaint and vigorous, "What maner of felowe is the Almightie that we shulde serve him?"

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See also Job 21:14,15 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Job 21:14. _THEY SAY UNTO GOD _] This is the language of their _conduct_, though not directly of their _lips_. _DEPART FROM US_] Let us alone; we do not trouble thee. Thy ways are painful; we d...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    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 c...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 21 JOB'S REPLY _ 1. Hear my solemn words--then mock on (Job 21:1)_ 2. His testimony concerning the experiences of the wicked (Job 21:7) 3. Your answers are nothing but falsehoods (Job 21:27...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    JOB 21. JOB'S REPLY. Zophar was graphic and vigorous, but had nothing to say. Nevertheless his speech suggests to Job his next argument. The facts are quite the opposite of what Zophar has said: the w...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    GOD. Hebrew EI. App-4....

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 472 CONDUCT OF SINNERS TOWARDS GOD Job 21:14. _Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways. What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    MARK ME, AND BE ADMONISHED, &C.— The coldest reader cannot be insensible of the beauties of the poetry in this speech of Job. We will not, therefore, attempt to point them out, but attend to the threa...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    2. The wicked enjoy great peace and plenty. (Job 21:7-16) TEXT 21:7-16 7 WHEREFORE DO THE WICKED LIVE, Become old, yea, wax mighty in power? 8 Then- seed is established with them in their sight,...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _THEREFORE THEY SAY UNTO GOD, DEPART FROM US; FOR WE DESIRE NOT THE KNOWLEDGE OF THY WAYS._ Therefore - rather, And yet they are such as say, etc. - i:e., say, not in so many words, but virtually, by...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    JOB'S SIXTH SPEECH Zophar, like the other friends, had insisted on the certain retribution for sin which befalls the wicked in this life. Now at length these views draw from Job a direct contradictio...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THEREFORE] better, 'though' or 'yet.'...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Evil people do not want to serve anyone. Especially, they do not want to serve God. They only care about their own pleasure. They do not pray because they say, ‘We will not benefit if we pray. Prayer...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 21 JOB REPLIES TO ZOPHAR’S...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THEREFORE THEY SAY UNTO GOD. — Should be, _Yet they said unto God, Depart from us,_ &c....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יֹּאמְר֣וּ לָ֭ † אֵל ס֣וּר מִמֶּ֑נּוּ...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    XVIII. ARE THE WAYS OF THE LORD EQUAL? Job 21:1 Job SPEAKS WITH less of personal distress and a more collected mind than before Job begins a reply to Zophar. His brave hope of vindication has forti...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Here, as in the first cycle, Job answered not merely Zophar, but the whole argument. First of all, he set over against their statement and illustrations the fact patent to all that often the wicked ar...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the (g) knowledge of thy ways. (g) They desire nothing more than to be exempt from all subjection that they should bear to God, thus Job...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Ways. The too common effect of riches, Proverbs xxx. 8., and Ecclesiasticus v. 2._...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (14) Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways. (15) What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31. As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks. They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure and...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THEREFORE THEY SAY UNTO GOD,.... While in health and life, amidst all their outward prosperity, and because of it; for worldly riches have this tendency, to make men proud and insolent, and not only t...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways. Ver. 14. _Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us_] Lest any should think, saith Merlin here, that Job sp...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Therefore_ Because of their constant prosperity, _they say unto God_ Sometimes in words, but commonly in their thoughts and affections, and by the language of their lives, _Depart from us_ Let us not...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Therefore, or "yet," THEY SAY UNTO GOD, DEPART FROM US; FOR WE DESIRE NOT THE KNOWLEDGE OF THY WAYS. Their prosperity, which should have constrained them to turn to God in appreciation and gratitude,...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    JOB POINTS OUT THE DIFFERENCE IN CALAMITIES BEFALLING MEN...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    JOB SILENCES ZOPHAR (vv.1-34). The callous cruelty of Zophar's speech would surely cause some men to be bitterly angry, but while Job was incensed by such treatment, he did not lose his temper. He...

  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

    "WE DO NOT EVEN DESIRE THE KNOWLEDGE OF YOUR WAYS": All of this prosperity comes upon people who have completely dismissed God from their lives (Romans 1:28)....

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

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  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THEREFORE; because of their constant prosperity. Heb. _and_, or _yet_. Though God be so gracious to them, yet they say and do thus to him. THEY SAY; sometimes in words, but commonly in their thoughts...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 21:14 say H559 (H8799) God H410 Depart H5493 (H8798) desire H2654 (H8804) knowledge H1847 ways...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Job's answer to Zophar in which he denies any secret sin. CHARACTERS: God, Job, three friends. CONCLUSION: The providences of God in the government of this world are sometimes hard to be u...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of Thy ways._ THE RICHES OF GRACE Job shows that wicked men may prosper in life and health (verse 7); in their multitude of children (verse 8); in tra...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _But Job answered and said._ JOB’S THIRD ANSWER There is more logic and less passion in this address than in any of Job’s preceding speeches. He felt the dogma of the friends to be opposed-- I. To...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JOB—NOTE ON JOB 21:1 Job’s response closes the second cycle of the dialogue with his friends. ⇐ ⇔...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JOB—NOTE ON JOB 21:7 Job argues that, contrary to what his friends have been saying (e.g., Job 18:5), the WICKED often prosper and their OFFSPRING

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _JOB’S REPLY TO ZOPHAR’S SECOND SPEECH_ The ungodly, instead of experiencing the miseries indicated by Zophar, often, perhaps generally, enjoy continued ease and prosperity in this life. I. INTRODUC...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION JOB 21:1 Job answers Zophar, as he had answered Bildad, in a single not very lengthy chapter. After a few caustic introductory remarks (verses 2-4), he takes up the challenge which Zophar...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    By Chuck Smith This time shall we turn to the book of Job, chapter 21. Zophar has just concluded in chapter 20 his second speech in which, again, he sort of just gives some of the traditions and quote...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Thessalonians 2:10; 2 Timothy 4:3; 2 Timothy 4:4; Habakkuk 1:15;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Therefore — Because of their constant prosperity. Say — Sometimes in words, but commonly in their thoughts and the language of their lives....

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