Job 24:1 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?

Job 24:1 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Acts 1:7
And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power.
Ecclesiastes 3:17
I said in mine heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked: for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.
2 Peter 3:7-8
But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men. …
Ecclesiastes 8:6-7
Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore the misery of man is great upon him. …
Matthew 24:38
For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-12)

Job’s friends had been very positive in it that they should soon see the fall of wicked people, how much soever they might prosper for a while. By no means, says Job; though times are not hidden from the Almighty, yet those that know him do not presently see his day, Job 24:1. 1. He takes it for granted that times are not hidden from the Almighty; past times are not hidden from his judgment (Eccl.…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 1)

Job 24:1-25. 1. Why is it that, seeing that the times of punishment (Eze 30:3; “time” in the same sense) are not hidden from the Almighty, they who know Him (His true worshippers, Job 18:21) do not see His days (of vengeance; Joe 1:15; 2Pe 3:10)? Or, with Umbreit less simply, making the parallel clauses more nicely balanced, Why are not times of punishment hoarded up (“laid up”; Job 21:19; appoint…