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Job 21:14–16

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They say to God, ‘Get lost!

We’ve no interest in you or your ways.

Why should we have dealings with God Almighty?

What’s there in it for us?’

But they’re wrong, dead wrong—they’re not gods.

It’s beyond me how they can carry on like this!

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ESVEnglish Standard Version

They say to God, ‘Depart from us!

We do not desire the knowledge of your ways.

What is the Almighty, that we should serve him?

And what profit do we get if we pray to him?’

Behold, is not their prosperity in their hand?

The counsel of the wicked is far from me.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Yet they say to God, ‘Leave us alone!

We have no desire to know your ways.

Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him?

What would we gain by praying to him?’

But their prosperity is not in their own hands,

so I stand aloof from the plans of the wicked.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Yet they say to God, “Leave us alone!

We don’t want to know your ways.

Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him,

and what will we gain by pleading with him?”

But their prosperity is not of their own doing.

The counsel of the wicked is far from me!

NLTNew Living Translation

And yet they say to God, ‘Go away.

We want no part of you and your ways.

Who is the Almighty, and why should we obey him?

What good will it do us to pray?’

(They think their prosperity is of their own doing,

but I will have nothing to do with that kind of thinking.)

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

And they say to God, ‘Turn away from us,

for we do not desire to know your ways.

Who is Shaddai that we should serve him,

or what would we benefit when we plead with him?’

Look, their prosperity is not in their hands;

the schemes of the wicked are repugnant to me.

KJV 1900King James Version

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 what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?

Lo, their good is not in their hand:

The counsel of the wicked is far from me.