Job 24:1
Why are not times treasured up with the Almighty? why do not they that know him see his days?
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?
In Context
2They remove the landmarks; they violently take away the flocks and pasture them;
Cross References
Genesis 7:4For in yet seven days I will cause it to rain on the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living being which I have made will I destroy from the ground.
Genesis 18:20And Jehovah said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great and their sin is very grievous,
Psalms 31:15My times are in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from my persecutors.
Psalms 73:16When I thought to be able to know this, it was a grievous task in mine eyes;
Ecclesiastes 8:6For to every purpose there is time and manner. For the misery of man is great upon him;
Isaiah 2:12For there shall be a day of Jehovah of hosts upon everything proud and lofty, and upon everything lifted up, and it shall be brought low;
Matthew Henry on Job 24:1
Job having by his complaints in the foregoing chapter given vent to his passion, and thereby gained some ease, breaks them off abruptly, and now applies himself to a further discussion of the doctrinal controversy between him and his friends concerning the prosperity of wicked people. That many live at ease who yet are ungodly and profane, and despise all the exercises of devotion, he had shown, ch. xxi. Now here he goes further, and shows that many who are mischievous to mankind, and live in open defiance to all… Read the whole commentary →