Job 24:1
Times are not hid from the Almighty: but they that know him, know not his days.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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
2Some have removed landmarks, have taken away flocks by force, and fed them.
Cross References
Genesis 7:4For yet a while, and after seven days, I will rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and I will destroy every substance that I have made, from the face of the earth.
Genesis 18:20And the Lord said: The cry of Sodom and Gomorrha is multiplied, and their sin is become exceedingly grievous.
Psalms 31:15But I have put my trust in thee, O Lord: I said: Thou art my God.
Psalms 73:16I studied that I might know this thing, it is a labour in my sight:
Ecclesiastes 8:6There is a time and opportunity for every business, and great affliction for man:
Isaiah 2:12Because the day of the Lord of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and highminded, and upon every one that is arrogant, and he shall be humbled.
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 →