Job 24:1
“Why does the Almighty not reserve times for judgment? Why may those who know Him never see His days?
2 Men move boundary stones; they pasture stolen flocks.
3 They drive away the donkey of the fatherless and take the widow’s ox in pledge.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- “Why does the Almighty not reserve times for judgment? Why may those who know Him never see His days?
- KJV
- Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?
- WEB
- “Why aren’t times laid up by the Almighty? Why don’t those who know him see his days?
- ASV
- Why are times not laid up by the Almighty? And why do not they that know him see his days?
- DARBY
- Why are not times treasured up with the Almighty? why do not they that know him see his days?
- BLB
- [“] Why from Shaddai are the times not hidden away, and those knowing Him, they have not seen His days?
- ÅB
- Hvorfor lar den Allmektige aldri sine straffetider komme? Og hvorfor får de som kjenner ham, ikke se hans dager?
- OTB
- "Hvorfor er tider ikke fastsatt av Den Allmektige,
Og hvorfor oppfatter ikke de som kjenner Ham Hans dager? - B1930
- Hvorfor lar den Allmektige aldri sine straffetider komme? Og hvorfor får de som kjenner ham, ikke se hans dager?
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Acts 1:7
Jesus replied, “It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by His own authority.
Read in contextEcclesiastes 3:17
I said in my heart, “God will judge the righteous and the wicked, since there is a time for every activity and every deed.”
Read in context2 Peter 3:7–8
And by that same word, the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.
Read in contextEcclesiastes 8:6–7
For there is a right time and procedure to every purpose, though a man’s misery weighs heavily upon him.
Read in contextPsalms 36:10
Extend Your loving devotion to those who know You, and Your righteousness to the upright in heart.
Read in contextMatthew 24:38
For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark.
Read in contextPsalms 73:16–19
When I tried to understand all this, it was troublesome in my sight
Read in contextDaniel 2:21
He changes the times and seasons; He removes kings and establishes them. He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to the discerning.
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