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Job 24:1 King James Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
(Job 24:1-25)

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; Pe2 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; appointed) by the Almighty? that is, Why are they not so appointed as that man may now see them? as the second clause shows. Job does not doubt that they are appointed: nay, he asserts it (Job 21:30); what he wishes is that God would let all now see that it is so.
 
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30 That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.
19 God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it.
10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
15 Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.
21 Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God.
3 For the day is near, even the day of the LORD is near, a cloudy day; it shall be the time of the heathen.
12 Is not God in the height of heaven? and behold the height of the stars, how high they are!
13 And thou sayest, How doth God know? can he judge through the dark cloud?
14 Thick clouds are a covering to him, that he seeth not; and he walketh in the circuit of heaven.
24 For as the lightning, that lighteneth out of the one part under heaven, shineth unto the other part under heaven; so shall also the Son of man be in his day.
23 Though it be given him to be in safety, whereon he resteth; yet his eyes are upon their ways.
24 They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all other, and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.
30 That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.
30 With all his reign and his might, and the times that went over him, and over Israel, and over all the kingdoms of the countries.
16 Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: save me for thy mercies' sake.
32 And of the children of Issachar, which were men that had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do; the heads of them were two hundred; and all their brethren were at their commandment.
13 Then the king said to the wise men, which knew the times, (for so was the king's manner toward all that knew law and judgment:
19 Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them.
1 But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.
2 Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?
3 For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.
4 Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.
5 They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;)
6 To dwell in the clifts of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks.
7 Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.
8 They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.
3 Seek ye the LORD, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the LORD'S anger.
10 Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain.
13 Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death:
16 I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.
12 For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.
7 And I will feed the flock of slaughter, even you, O poor of the flock. And I took unto me two staves; the one I called Beauty, and the other I called Bands; and I fed the flock.
6 For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
4 So shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians prisoners, and the Ethiopians captives, young and old, naked and barefoot, even with their buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.
17 Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour's landmark. And all the people shall say, Amen.
19 The righteous see it, and are glad: and the innocent laugh them to scorn.
8 There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.
21 Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God.
4 I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon to them that know me: behold Philistia, and Tyre, with Ethiopia; this man was born there.
11 Let not the foot of pride come against me, and let not the hand of the wicked remove me.
4 The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant; even the waters forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from men.
19 God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it.
20 The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.
15 Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.
30 Shall I cause it to return into his sheath? I will judge thee in the place where thou wast created, in the land of thy nativity.
20 They that come after him shall be astonied at his day, as they that went before were affrighted.
32 It shall be accomplished before his time, and his branch shall not be green.
12 For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.
3 For the day is near, even the day of the LORD is near, a cloudy day; it shall be the time of the heathen.
3 Then say thou, Thus saith the Lord GOD, The city sheddeth blood in the midst of it, that her time may come, and maketh idols against herself to defile herself.
7 And all nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son's son, until the very time of his land come: and then many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of him.
22 And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.
1 Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?
8 Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him:
9 On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him:
10 But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
11 My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined.
12 Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
7 Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?
8 Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes.
9 Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.
10 Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.
11 They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.
12 They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.
13 They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.