Job 22:17
Good News Translation
These are the ones who rejected God and believed that he could do nothing to them.

New Revised Standard Version
They said to God, ‘Leave us alone,’ and ‘What can the Almighty do to us?’

Contemporary English Version
They rejected God All-Powerful, feeling he was helpless,

New American Bible
They said to God, “Let us alone!” and, “What can the Almighty do to us?”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Who said to God: Depart from us: and looked upon the Almighty as if he could do nothing:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Who said to God: Depart from us: and looked upon the Almighty as if he could do nothing:

Depart

Job 21:10,14,15 Their cattle have conceived, and failed not: their cow has calved, and is not deprived of her fruit. . . .

Isaiah 30:11 Take away from me the way, turn away the path from me, let the Holy One of Israel cease from before us.

Matthew 8:29,34 And behold they cried out, saying: What have we to do with thee, Jesus Son of God? art thou come hither to torment us before the time? . . .

Romans 1:28 And as they liked not to have God in their knowledge, God delivered them up to a reprobate sense, to do those things which are not convenient.

and what

Psalm 4:6 The light of thy countenance, O Lord, is signed upon us: thou hast given gladness in my heart.

Malachi 3:14 And you have said: What have we spoken against thee? You have said: He laboureth in vain that serveth God, and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinances, and that we have walked sorrowful before the Lord of hosts?

for them.

Context
Eliphaz Exhorts Job
16Who were taken away before their time, and a flood hath overthrown their foundation. 17Who said to God: Depart from us: and looked upon the Almighty as if he could do nothing:18Whereas he had filled their houses with good things: whose way of thinking be far from me.…
Cross References
Job 21:14
Who have said to God: Depart from us, we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.

Job 21:15
Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what doth it profit us if we pray to him?

Job 22:16
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