World English Bible
Job 22:17
“who said to God, 'Depart from us;' and, 'What can the Almighty do for us?”
Verse in context — Job 22
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Will you keep the old way, which wicked men have trodden,
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who were snatched away before their time, whose foundation was poured out as a stream,
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who said to God, 'Depart from us;' and, 'What can the Almighty do for us?
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Yet he filled their houses with good things, but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
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The righteous see it, and are glad. The innocent ridicule them,
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