Job 21
Treated in 10 passages across the library.
The verses these writers stop at
- 21:14 Yet they say to God, "Leave us alone! We have no wish to know your ways. 3
- 21:7 Why do the wicked go on living, growing old and growing ever more powerful? 1
- 21:12 They sing to the tambourine and the lyre and make merry at the sound of the flute. 1
- 21:13 They live out their days in prosperity and go down to Sheol in an instant. 1
- 21:15 Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What good will it do us to pray to him?" 1
- 21:19 You say, "God stores up their punishment for their children." Let God repay the wicked themselves, so that they feel it! 1
- 21:30 that the evil are spared on the day of disaster and led to safety on the day of wrath. 1
- 21:34 So how can you comfort me with empty words? Nothing is left of your answers but falsehood. 1
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Where it is preached
- All Things for Good ·
The tests of love to God cites Job xxi. 14
…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…
- Communion with God ·
Digression II: all solid wisdom laid up in Christ cites Job xxi. 7
…been exercised, Eccles. viii. 11, as well as a temptation to them who have looked on, Job xxi. 7; Ps. lxxiii. 2–4, etc.; Jer. xii. 1; Hab. i. 13. The discovery of it in Christ is utterly…
- The Ten Commandments ·
2.1 The First Commandment cites Job 21: 12
…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…
- The Ten Commandments ·
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…
- The Ministry of Intercession ·
Restraining Prayer—Is It Sin? cites Job xxi. 15
…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.…
- Institutes of the Christian Religion ·
Book 2, Chapter 10 — The Resemblance Between the Old Testament and the New cites Job 21:13
…elsewhere said, “They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave?” (Job 21:13). Where, on the other hand, is the great stability of the saints, who, as David…
- A Call to the Unconverted ·
Preface cites Job xxi. 30
…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…
- Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners ·
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
…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…
- Lectures on Revivals of Religion ·
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…
- A Body of Divinity ·
The Resurrection cites Job 21:14
…for the devil and his angels.’ Matt 25:41. He that said to God, ‘Depart from me,’ Job 21:14, and to religion, ‘Depart from me,’ must now hear that word pronounced from his judge…