¹⁷ Those saying to God, `Turn aside from us,' And what doth the Mighty One to them?

¹⁴ And they say to God, `Turn aside from us, And the knowledge of Thy ways We have not desired.

¹⁵ What `is' the Mighty One that we serve Him? And what do we profit when we meet with Him?'

⁶ Many are saying, `Who doth show us good?' Lift on us the light of Thy face, O Jehovah,

¹⁰ His bullock hath eaten corn, and doth not loath. His cow bringeth forth safely, And doth not miscarry.

¹¹ Turn aside from the way, decline from the path, Cause to cease from before us the Holy One of Israel.'

¹⁴ Ye have said, `A vain thing to serve God! And what gain when we kept His charge? And when we have gone in black, Because of Jehovah of Hosts?

²⁹ and lo, they cried out, saying, `What -- to us and to thee, Jesus, Son of God? didst thou come hither, before the time, to afflict us?'

³⁴ And lo, all the city came forth to meet Jesus, and having seen him, they called on `him' that he might depart from their borders.

²⁸ And, according as they did not approve of having God in knowledge, God gave them up to a disapproved mind, to do the things not seemly;