Job 24:1
“For this reason from the Mighty One || Times have not been hidden, || And those knowing Him have not seen His days.
Literal Standard Version
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 reach the borders, || They have taken a drove away violently, || Indeed, they do evil.
Cross References
Genesis 7:4for after seven more days I am sending rain on the earth [for] forty days and forty nights, and have wiped away all the substance that I have made from off the face of the ground.”
Genesis 18:20And YHWH says, “The cry of Sodom and Gomorrah—because great; and their sin—because exceedingly grievous:
Psalms 31:15In Your hand [are] my times, || Deliver me from the hand of my enemies, || And from my pursuers.
Psalms 73:16And I think to know this, || It [is] perverseness in my eyes,
Ecclesiastes 8:6For to every delight there is a time and a judgment, for the misfortune of man is great on him.
Isaiah 2:12For a day [is] to YHWH of Hosts, || For every proud and high one, || And for every lifted up and low one,
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 →