Job 21:14

Job's Seventh Speech: A Response To Zophar

¹³ They spend their days in prosperity
and go down to Sheol in peace.
¹⁴ Yet they say to God: “Leave us alone!
We don’t want to know Your ways.
¹⁵ Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him,
and what will we gain by pleading with Him?”

Turn Aside

O God

Job

No

Job 22:17

They were the ones who said to God, “Leave us alone!”
and “What can the Almighty do to us?”

Proverbs 1:29

Because they hated knowledge,
didn’t choose to fear the Lord,

Psalm 10:4

In all his scheming,
the wicked arrogantly thinks:
“There is no accountability,
since God does not exist.”

Psalm 10:11

He says to himself, “God has forgotten;
He hides His face and will never see.”

Proverbs 1:7

The fear of the Lord
is the beginning of knowledge;
fools despise wisdom and discipline.

Proverbs 1:22

“How long, foolish ones, will you love ignorance?
How long will you mockers enjoy mocking
and you fools hate knowledge?

Habakkuk 1:15

The Chaldeans pull them all up with a hook,
catch them in their dragnet,
and gather them in their fishing net;
that is why they are glad and rejoice.

Luke 8:28

When he saw Jesus, he cried out, fell down before Him, and said in a loud voice, “What do You have to do with me, Jesus, You Son of the Most High God? I beg You, don’t torment me!”

Luke 8:37

Then all the people of the Gerasene region asked Him to leave them, because they were gripped by great fear. So getting into the boat, He returned.

John 3:19-20

“This, then, is the judgment: The light has come into the world, and people loved darkness rather than the light because their deeds were evil.

John 8:45-47

Yet because I tell the truth, you do not believe Me.

John 15:23-24

The one who hates Me also hates My Father.

Romans 1:28

And because they did not think it worthwhile to acknowledge God, God delivered them over to a worthless mind to do what is morally wrong.

Romans 8:7

For the mind-set of the flesh is hostile to God because it does not submit itself to God’s law, for it is unable to do so.

2 Thessalonians 2:10-12

and with every unrighteous deception among those who are perishing. They perish because they did not accept the love of the truth in order to be saved.

2 Timothy 4:3-4

For the time will come when they will not tolerate sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, will multiply teachers for themselves because they have an itch to hear something new.