Job 24:1
“Why does the Almighty not reserve times for judgment? Why may those who know Him never see His days?
Majority Standard Bible
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
2Men move boundary stones; they pasture stolen flocks.
Cross References
Genesis 7:4For seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living thing I have made.”
Genesis 18:20Then the LORD said, “The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great. Because their sin is so grievous,
Psalms 31:15My times are in Your hands; deliver me from my enemies and from those who pursue me.
Psalms 73:16When I tried to understand all this, it was troublesome in my sight
Ecclesiastes 8:6For there is a right time and procedure to every purpose, though a man’s misery weighs heavily upon him.
Isaiah 2:12For the Day of the LORD of Hosts will come against all the proud and lofty, against all that is exalted—it will 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 →