Job 21:14

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

We do not want to know your ways.

Job 22:28

22:28 Whatever you decide on a matter,

it will be established for you,

and light will shine on your ways.


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 word is גָּזַר (gazar, “to cut”), in the sense of deciding a matter.