Job 21:14

14. Therefore Better, And yet they say unto God.

Depart from us This is the practical language of all irreligious life; the language of God at the last day is retributively the same, Depart from me. “If religion cost something, the want of it will cost infinitely more.” Lest after such a repulse even yet, in his love and mercy, he should draw nigh unto them, they say unto God: “We desire not the knowledge of thy ways.” “They seem to take as much care to guard against the inroad of ideas from that solemn quarter as the inhabitants of Holland do against the irruption of the sea… they endeavour to raise the groves of an earthly paradise to shade from sight that vista which opens to the distance of eternity.” JNO. FOSTER, Essays, iv, lect. 8.