Job 24:1
Why are not times [of punishment] treasured up by the Almighty, and why do his adorers not see his days [of retribution]?
Leeser Tanakh
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
2[The wicked] remove landmarks: they rob flocks, and feed them.
Cross References
Genesis 7:4For after only seven days more, I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights: and I will blot out every living substance that I have made from off the face of the earth.
Genesis 18:20And the Lord said, Because the cry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous:
Psalms 31:15(31:16) In thy hand are my destinies: deliver me from the hand of my enemies, and from my persecutors.
Psalms 73:16And when I should think to know this, it would be trouble in my eyes;
Ecclesiastes 8:6Because for every pursuit there is a time and a just consequence; for the evil of man [resteth] heavily upon him.
Isaiah 2:12For there is a day [of judgment] unto the Lord of hosts over every proud and lofty one; and over every exalted one, that he 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 →