Job 24:1

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Why are times not laid up by the Almighty? And why do not they that know him see his days?

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

מַדּ֗וּעַ מִ֭שַׁדַּי לֹא־נִצְפְּנ֣וּ עִתִּ֑ים וְ֝יֹדְעָ֗יו לֹא־חָ֥זוּ יָמָֽיו

Transliteration

Why from Shadday not nitspənu ʿittîm and yōdəʿāw not ḥāzû his yāmāw

Grammar Details

• *Shadday*: divine name with preposition *mi-*, 'from Almighty'
• *nitspənu*: niphal perfect 3rd person plural - 'are hidden/stored'
• *ʿittîm*: noun masculine plural - 'times/seasons'
• *yōdəʿāw*: qal participle masculine plural construct with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - 'those knowing him'
• *ḥāzû*: qal perfect 3rd person plural - 'see/perceive'
• *yāmāw*: noun masculine plural construct with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - 'his days'

Word Meanings

• *Shadday*: the Almighty/All-sufficient One
• *nitspənu*: are hidden/stored/reserved
• *ʿittîm*: times/seasons/appointed periods
• *yōdəʿāw*: those who know him/his acquaintances
• *ḥāzû*: see/perceive/behold
• *yāmāw*: his days/times/judgments

Referenced Verses

• Acts 1:7 : 7 And he said unto them, It is not for you to know times or seasons, which the Father hath set within His own authority.
• Eccl 3:17 : 17 I said in my heart, God will judge the righteous and the wicked; for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.
• Eccl 8:6-7 : 6 for to every purpose there is a time and judgment; because the misery of man is great upon him: 7 for he knoweth not that which shall be; for who can tell him how it shall be?
• 2 Pet 3:7-8 : 7 but the heavens that now are, and the earth, by the same word have been stored up for fire, being reserved against the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men. 8 But {G0} forget {G5209} not this one thing, beloved, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
• Eccl 9:11-12 : 11 I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. 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, even so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.
• Isa 2:12 : 12 For there shall be a day of Jehovah of hosts upon all that is proud and haughty, and upon all that is lifted up; and it shall be brought low;
• Isa 60:22 : 22 The little one shall become a thousand, and the small one a strong nation; I, Jehovah, will hasten it in its time.
• Jer 12:1-3 : 1 Righteous art thou, O Jehovah, when I contend with thee; yet would I reason the cause with thee: wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they at ease that deal very treacherously? 2 Thou hast planted them, yea, they have taken root; they grow, yea, they bring forth fruit: thou art near in their mouth, and far from their heart. 3 But thou, O Jehovah, knowest me; thou seest me, and triest my heart toward thee: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.
• Jer 46:10 : 10 For that day is [a day] of the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and the sword shall devour and be satiate, and shall drink its fill of their blood; for the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, hath a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.
• Dan 2:21 : 21 And he changeth the times and the seasons; he removeth kings, and setteth up kings; he giveth wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to them that have understanding;
• Matt 24:38 : 38 For as in those days which were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark,
• Luke 21:22-24 : 22 For these are days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled. 23 {G1161} Woe unto them that are with child and to them that give suck in those days! for there shall be great distress upon the land, and wrath unto this people. 24 And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led captive into all the nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.
• John 17:3 : 3 And this is life eternal, that they should know thee the only true God, and him whom thou didst send, [even] Jesus Christ.
• Acts 17:26 : 26 and he made of one {G129} every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, having determined [their] appointed seasons, and the bounds of their habitation;
• Rom 2:5 : 5 but after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up for thyself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;
• 1 Thess 5:1 : 1 But concerning the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that aught be written unto you.
• 1 Tim 4:1 : 1 But the Spirit saith expressly, that in later times some shall fall away from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons,
• 1 Tim 6:15 : 15 which in its own times he shall show, who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords;
• 2 Pet 2:3 : 3 And in covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose sentence now from of old lingereth not, and their destruction slumbereth not.
• Gen 7:4 : 4 For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living thing that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the ground.
• Gen 18:17 : 17 And Jehovah said, Shall I hide from Abraham that which I do;
• Gen 18:20-21 : 20 And Jehovah said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous; 21 I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know.
• Ps 9:10 : 10 And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee; For thou, Jehovah, hast not forsaken them that seek thee.
• Ps 31:15 : 15 My times are in thy hand: Deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me.
• Ps 36:10 : 10 Oh continue thy lovingkindness unto them that know thee, And thy righteousness to the upright in heart.
• Ps 73:16-19 : 16 When I thought how I might know this, It was too painful for me; 17 Until I went into the sanctuary of God, And considered their latter end. 18 Surely thou settest them in slippery places: Thou castest them down to destruction. 19 How are they become a desolation in a moment! They are utterly consumed with terrors.