Job 24:1
“Why aren’t times laid up by the Almighty? Why don’t those who know him see his days?
World English Bible Classic
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
2There are people who remove the landmarks. They violently take away flocks, and feed them.
Cross References
Genesis 7:4In seven days, I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights. I will destroy every living thing that I have made from the surface of the ground.”
Genesis 18:20The LORD said, “Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous,
Psalms 31:15My times are in your hand. Deliver me from the hand of my enemies, and from those who persecute me.
Psalms 73:16When I tried to understand this, it was too painful for me—
Ecclesiastes 8:6For there is a time and procedure for every purpose, although the misery of man is heavy on him.
Isaiah 2:12For there will be a day of the LORD of Armies for all that is proud and arrogant, and for all that is 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 →