Job: Judgment for the Wicked

Job 24:1

In 11 translations

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?
LSV: “For this reason from the Mighty One || Times have not been hidden, || And those knowing Him have not seen His days.
YLT: Wherefore from the Mighty One Times have not been hidden, And those knowing Him have not seen His days.
DBY: Why are not times treasured up with the Almighty? why do not they that know him see his days?
DRC: Times are not hid from the Almighty: but they that know him, know not his days.
GNV: Howe should not the times be hid from the Almightie, seeing that they which knowe him, see not his dayes?
JPS: Why are times not laid up by the Almighty? And why do not they that know Him see His days?
LXXE: But why have the seasons been hidden from the Lord,

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Written (Ketiv): וְיֹדְעוֹ (“and [one who] knows him”). Read aloud (Qere): וְ֝יֹדְעָ֗יו (“and [those who] know him”) — the form shown in the word-by-word reader.

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Leningrad Codex reads וְ֝יֹדְעָ֗ו; read aloud (Qere) reads וְ֝יֹדְעָ֗יו (“and [those who] know him”).

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Original-language editions

WLC: מַדּ֗וּעַ מִ֭שַּׁדַּי לֹא־נִצְפְּנ֣וּ עִתִּ֑ים וידעו לֹא־חָ֥זוּ יָמָֽיו׃Read aloud as (qere): וְ֝יֹדְעָ֗יו
LXX-Br: Διατί δὲ Κύριον ἔλαθον ὧραι,

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Acts 1:7Jesus replied, “It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by His own authority.
Ecclesiastes 3:17I said in my heart, “God will judge the righteous and the wicked, since there is a time for every activity and every deed.”
Ecclesiastes 8:6–7For there is a right time and procedure to every purpose, though a man’s misery weighs heavily upon him. Since no one knows what will happen, who can tell him what is to come?
2 Peter 3:7–8And 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. Beloved, do not let this one thing escape your notice: With the Lord a day…
Psalms 36:10Extend Your loving devotion to those who know You, and Your righteousness to the upright in heart.
Matthew 24:38For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark.
Psalms 73:16–19When I tried to understand all this, it was troublesome in my sight until I entered God’s sanctuary; then I discerned their end. Surely You set them on slick ground; You cast them down into ruin. How suddenly they are…
1 Timothy 6:15which the blessed and only Sovereign One—the King of kings and Lord of lords—will bring about in His own time.
1 Timothy 4:1Now the Spirit expressly states that in later times some will abandon the faith to follow deceitful spirits and the teachings of demons,
Genesis 18:20–21Then the LORD said, “The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great. Because their sin is so grievous, I will go down to see if their actions fully justify the outcry that has reached Me. If not, I will find out.”
Genesis 7:4For 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.”
Psalms 9:10Those who know Your name trust in You, for You, O LORD, have not forsaken those who seek You.
Romans 2:5But because of your hard and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.
Luke 21:22–24For these are the days of vengeance, to fulfill all that is written. How miserable those days will be for pregnant and nursing mothers! For there will be great distress upon the land and wrath against this people. They…
Isaiah 60:22The least of you will become a thousand, and the smallest a mighty nation. I am the LORD; in its time I will accomplish it quickly.
Isaiah 2:12For the Day of the LORD of Hosts will come against all the proud and lofty, against all that is exalted— it will be humbled—

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