Job 21:14

21:14 So they say to God, ‘Turn away from us!

We do not want to know your ways.

Job 22:17

22:17 They were saying to God, ‘Turn away from us,’

and ‘What can the Almighty do to us?’


tn The absence of the preposition before the complement adds greater vividness to the statement: “and knowing your ways – we do not desire.”

sn Contrast Ps 25:4, which affirms that walking in God’s ways means to obey God’s will – the Torah.

tn The form in the text is “to them.” The LXX and the Syriac versions have “to us.”