Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
And they say to God, 'Turn aside from us, And the knowledge of Thy ways We have not desired.
New American Standard Bible
We do not even desire the knowledge of Your ways.
King James Version
Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.
Holman Bible
We don’t want to know Your ways.
International Standard Version
"They say to God, "Turn away from us! We have no desire to know your ways.
A Conservative Version
And they say to God, Depart from us, for we do not desire the knowledge of thy ways.
American Standard Version
And they say unto God, Depart from us; For we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.
Amplified
“Yet they say to God, ‘Depart from us,
For we do not desire the knowledge of Your ways.
Bible in Basic English
Though they said to God, Go away from us, for we have no desire for the knowledge of your ways.
Darby Translation
And they say unto God, Depart from us, for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways!
Julia Smith Translation
And they will say to God, Depart from us; and we desired not the knowledge of thy ways.
King James 2000
Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of your ways.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And they say to God, 'Turn away from us, for we do not desire to know your ways.
Modern King James verseion
And they say to God, Depart from us; for we do not desire the knowledge of Your ways;
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
They say unto God, 'Go from us: we desire not the knowledge of thy ways!
NET Bible
So they say to God, 'Turn away from us! We do not want to know your ways.
New Heart English Bible
They tell God, 'Depart from us, for we do not want to know about your ways.
The Emphasized Bible
Yet they said unto GOD, Depart from us, and, In the knowledge of thy ways, find we no pleasure.
Webster
Therefore they say to God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.
World English Bible
They tell God, 'Depart from us, for we don't want to know about your ways.
Themes
worldly Amusements and pleasures » Lead to » Rejection of God
Amusements and worldly pleasures » Lead to rejection of God
Desires » Who does not desire God
Ignorance » Of God's word » Wilful
Ignorance of God » The wicked choose
Interlinear
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Chaphets
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 21:14
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Seventh Speech: A Response To Zophar
13 They wear out in good their days, And in a moment to Sheol go down. 14 And they say to God, 'Turn aside from us, And the knowledge of Thy ways We have not desired. 15 What is the Mighty One that we serve Him? And what do we profit when we meet with Him?'
Cross References
Job 22:17
Those saying to God, 'Turn aside from us,' And what doth the Mighty One to them?
Proverbs 1:29
Because that they have hated knowledge, And the fear of Jehovah have not chosen.
Psalm 10:4
The wicked according to the height of his face, inquireth not. 'God is not!' are all his devices.
Psalm 10:11
He said in his heart, 'God hath forgotten, He hath hid His face, He hath never seen.'
Proverbs 1:7
Fear of Jehovah is a beginning of knowledge, Wisdom and instruction fools have despised!
Proverbs 1:22
'Till when, ye simple, do ye love simplicity? And have scorners their scorning desired? And do fools hate knowledge?
Habakkuk 1:15
Each of them with a hook he hath brought up, He doth catch it in his net, and gathereth it in his drag, Therefore he doth joy and rejoice.
Luke 8:28
and having seen Jesus, and having cried out, he fell before him, and with a loud voice, said, 'What -- to me and to thee, Jesus, Son of God Most High? I beseech thee, mayest thou not afflict me!'
Luke 8:37
And the whole multitude of the region of the Gadarenes round about asked him to go away from them, because with great fear they were pressed, and he having entered into the boat, did turn back.
John 3:19-20
'And this is the judgment, that the light hath come to the world, and men did love the darkness rather than the light, for their works were evil;
John 8:45-47
'And because I say the truth, ye do not believe me.
John 15:23-24
'He who is hating me, doth hate also my Father;
Romans 1:28
And, according as they did not approve of having God in knowledge, God gave them up to a disapproved mind, to do the things not seemly;
Romans 8:7
because the mind of the flesh is enmity to God, for to the law of God it doth not subject itself,
2 Thessalonians 2:10-12
and in all deceitfulness of the unrighteousness in those perishing, because the love of the truth they did not receive for their being saved,
2 Timothy 4:3-4
for there shall be a season when the sound teaching they will not suffer, but according to their own desires to themselves they shall heap up teachers -- itching in the hearing,