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They tell God, `Depart from us, For we don`t want to know about your ways.
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Rejection Through Conduct
Commentators explain that the wicked don't necessarily say "Depart from us" with their lips, but with their lives. Their actions, priorities, and internal thoughts communicate a desire to be left alone by God. It's a rejection expressed through conduct, a willful choice to live without reference to God's authority.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Therefore - This would seem to indicate that the “result” of their living in this manner was that they rejected God, or that one of the cons…
19th Century
Anglican
Therefore they say to God. —It should be, Yet they said to God, Depart from us, etc.
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Therefore they say unto God While in health and life, amidst all their outward prosperity, and because of it; for worldly…
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Job says that remarkable judgments are sometimes brought upon notorious sinners, but not always. Why is it so?
This is the day of God's pati…
13th Century
Catholic
In the previous chapter, Zophar had already conceded, at least in part, to Job's opinion. He had affirmed that sins were punished after death, alth…
