Job 22:17 · KJV
“Which said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them? {for: or, to}”
— Job 22:17
Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood: {whose...: Heb. a flood was poured upon their foundation}
Yet he filled their houses with good {things}: but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
Job 22 — Context
Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden?
16Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood: {whose...: Heb. a flood was poured upon their foundation}
17Which said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them? {for: or, to}
18Yet he filled their houses with good {things}: but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
19The righteous see {it}, and are glad: and the innocent laugh them to scorn.
Cross References
Job 21:14-15
Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.
Psalms 4:6
{There be} many that say, Who will shew us {any} good? LORD, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us.
Romans 1:28
And even as they did not like to retain God in {their} knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; {to retain: or, to acknowledge} {a reprobate...: or, a mind void of judgment or, an unapproving mind}
Isaiah 30:11
Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.
Malachi 3:14
Ye have said, It {is} vain to serve God: and what profit {is it} that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts? {ordinance: Heb. observation} {mournfully: Heb. in black}
Matthew 8:29
And, behold, they cried out, saying, What have we to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God? art thou come hither to torment us before the time?
Job 21:10
Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.
Matthew 8:34
And, behold, the whole city came out to meet Jesus: and when they saw him, they besought {him} that he would depart out of their coasts.