Job 21

Treated in 7 passages across the library.

  • 21:14 And they say unto God, Depart from us; For we desire not the knowledge of thy ways. 2
  • 21:12 They sing to the timbrel and harp, And rejoice at the sound of the pipe. 1
  • 21:15 What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? And what profit should we have, if we pray unto him? 1
  • 21:19 [Ye say], God layeth up his iniquity for his children. Let him recompense it unto himself, that he may know it: 1
  • 21:30 That the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity? That they are led forth to the day of wrath? 1
  • 21:34 How then comfort ye me in vain, Seeing in your answers there remaineth [only] falsehood? 1

American Standard Version

  1. All Things for Good · Thomas Watson

    The tests of love to God cites Job xxi. 14

    …ted with Him. “They say to God, Depart from us, we desire not the knowledge of thy ways” (Job xxi. 14). Sinners shun acquaintance with God, they count His presence a burden; and are these lov…

  2. The Ministry of Intercession · Andrew Murray

    Restraining Prayer—Is It Sin? cites Job xxi. 15

    …rainest prayer before God.”—Job xv. 4. “What profit should we have, if we pray unto Him?”—Job xxi. 15. “God forbid that I should sin against the Lord in ceasing to pray for you.”—1 Sam. xii. …

  3. Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners · John Bunyan

    Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners; Or, a Brief Relation of the Exceeding Mercy of God in Christ, to His Poor Servant John Bunyan cites Job 21.14

    …o me. Then I said unto God, ‘Depart from me, for I desire not the knowledge of thy ways’ (Job 21.14). I was now void of all good consideration, heaven and hell were both out of sight and mi…

  4. Lectures on Revivals of Religion · Charles G. Finney

    Lecture XVII. False Comforts for Sinners cites Job xxi. 34

    …. Text.—How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood.—Job xxi. 34. JOB’S three friends insisted on it that the afflictions which he suffered were sent as a…

  5. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

    2.1 The First Commandment cites Job 21: 12

    …el, and the harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ. They spend their days in mirth.’ Job 21: 12, 13, (mg). I have read of a place in Africa, where the people spend all their time in dan…

  6. A Call to the Unconverted · Richard Baxter

    Preface cites Job xxi. 30

    …t thy prison, for all thou so lovest it; thou art but reserved in it to the day of wrath, Job xxi. 30. the Judge is coming, thy soul is even going. Yet a little while, and thy friend shall sa…

  7. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

    2.2 The Second Commandment cites Job 21: 19

    …be severely punished for his father’s sin. ‘God layeth up his iniquity for his children’ (Job 21: 19); that is, God lays up the punishment of his iniquity for his children — the child smarts…