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Job 24:1
“Why does the Almighty not reserve times for judgment? Why may those who know Him never see His days?
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Job addresses his three companions while cataloging the rampant injustice of his day. He questions the timing of divine intervention as he observes the unchecked exploitation of the vulnerable.
The words — מַדּ֗וּעַ (ma.Du.a') = why? and נִצְפְּנ֣וּ (nitz.pe.Nu) = have they been stored up. The phrasing frames judgment not as absent but as deliberately concealed or delayed.
The thread — The tension between divine timing and human impatience appears in Acts 1:7 and Ecclesiastes 3:17, where fixed seasons for judgment are affirmed. Ecclesiastes 8:6 further notes that proper procedure exists even when human suffering obscures it.
Why it lands — The text forces a reader to confront the gap between observed injustice and promised justice. It demands patience in awaiting God’s declared schedule rather than demanding immediate resolution.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?
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.
- Ecclesiastes 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.”
- Ecclesiastes 8:6 For there is a right time and procedure to every purpose, though a man’s misery weighs heavily upon him.
- 2 Peter 3:7 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.
- Psalms 36:10 Extend Your loving devotion to those who know You, and Your righteousness to the upright in heart.
- Psalms 73:16 When I tried to understand all this, it was troublesome in my sight
- Matthew 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.
- Genesis 7:4 For 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 18:17 And the LORD said, “Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do?
- Genesis 18:20 Then the LORD said, “The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great. Because their sin is so grievous,