Job 24:1
Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?
King James Version
In Context
2Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof.
Cross References
Genesis 7:4For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.
Genesis 18:20And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous;
Psalms 31:15My times are in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me.
Psalms 73:16When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me;
Ecclesiastes 8:6Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore the misery of man is great upon him.
Isaiah 2:12For the day of the LORD of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and he 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 →