Job 21:14

¹⁷who said to God, ‘Depart from us!’ and, ‘What can the Almighty do for us?’

⁷because the mind of the flesh is hostile toward God, for it is not subject to God’s law, neither indeed can it be.

¹⁰and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they didn’t receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. ¹¹Because of this, God sends them a powerful delusion, that they should believe a lie, ¹²that they all might be judged who didn’t believe the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

⁴The wicked, in the pride of his face, has no room in his thoughts for God.

²³He who hates me, hates my Father also. ²⁴If I hadn’t done among them the works which no one else did, they wouldn’t have had sin. But now they have seen and also hated both me and my Father.

¹⁹This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light, for their works were evil. ²⁰For everyone who does evil hates the light and doesn’t come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.

²⁹because they hated knowledge, and didn’t choose the fear of the LORD.

³For the time will come when they will not listen to the sound doctrine, but having itching ears, will heap up for themselves teachers after their own lusts, ⁴and will turn away their ears from the truth, and turn away to fables.

²²“How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, and fools hate knowledge?

¹¹He says in his heart, “God has forgotten. He hides his face. He will never see it.”