--- title: "Job 24 - Study King James Bible with pooles english annotations on the holy bible" description: "Read Job 24 with pooles english annotations on the holy bible commentary. 1 Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days? 2 Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks" image: "/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/pooles-english-annotations-on-the-holy-bible/job/24" --- [ Read](/kjv/job/24)[ Commentary](/study/job/24)[ Interlinear](/interlinear/job/24) Audio 1 Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days? 2 *Some* remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed *thereof*.* 3 They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow’s ox for a pledge. 4 They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together. 5 Behold, *as* wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness *yieldeth* food for them *and* for *their* children. 6 They reap *every one* his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.** 7 They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that *they have* no covering in the cold. 8 They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter. 9 They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor. 10 They cause *him* to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf *from* the hungry; 11 *Which* make oil within their walls, *and* tread *their* winepresses, and suffer thirst. 12 Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly *to them*. 13 They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof. 14 The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief. 15 The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth *his* face.* 16 In the dark they dig through houses, *which* they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light. 17 For the morning *is* to them even as the shadow of death: if *one* know *them, they are in* the terrors of the shadow of death. 18 He *is* swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards. 19 Drought and heat consume the snow waters: *so doth* the grave *those which* have sinned.* 20 The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken as a tree. 21 He evil entreateth the barren *that* beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow. 22 He draweth also the mighty with his power: he riseth up, and no *man* is sure of life.* 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.** 25 And if *it be* not *so* now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth? [Job 23](/study/job/23) [Job 25](/study/job/25) ## Commentary To verse 1 The sense of the words according to this translation is this, **Why,**( how comes it to pass,) **seeing times** (i.e. the several times of every man’s life, how long he shall live, or the fittest seasons and opportunities (which are oft called *times*, as [Genesis 24:11](/kjv/genesis/24/11); [Psalms 31:15](/kjv/psalms/31/15); [Psalms 119:126](/kjv/psalms/119/126); [Acts 1:6](/kjv/acts/1/6),[Acts 1:7](/kjv/acts/1/7)) for every action, and particularly for the punishment of wicked men, about which the present controversy was) **are not hidden from or unknown to the almighty God,**( i.e. seeing all times, and men that live, and things that are done, or to be done, in their tines and seasons, are exactly known to God,) **do they that know him** (i.e. who love and obey him, as that word is oft used, as, [Psalms 9:10](/kjv/psalms/9/10); [Psalms 36:10](/kjv/psalms/36/10); [Psalms 91:14](/kjv/psalms/91/14), or they who observe and regard his ways and works done in the world) **not see** (whence is it that they cannot discern) **his** (i.e. God’s) **days,**i.e. his times and seasons which he takes for the punishment of ungodly men? which if they were constant and fixed in this life, as you pretend they are, they would not be unknown to good men, to whom God useth to reveal his secrets, and they could not be unobserved by so many good men, who make it their business to mind and study the works of God, and especially the course and methods of his providence towards good and bad men. The times or days of God’s executing judgments upon sinners are frequently called *the days of the Lord*, as [Isaiah 2:12](/kjv/isaiah/2/12); [Isaiah 13:6](/kjv/isaiah/13/6); [Jeremiah 46:10](/kjv/jeremiah/46/10); compare [Job 20:28](/kjv/job/20/28); [Proverbs 6:34](/kjv/proverbs/6/34); [Acts 2:20](/kjv/acts/2/20); as the time of man’s judging is called *man’s day*, [1 Corinthians 4:3](/kjv/1-corinthians/4/3). But this verse is in part, and may very agreeably to the Hebrew text be rendered and interpreted thus, *Why or how are not times* (i.e. the times and seasons appointed for the punishment of evil-doers, about which the dispute was) *hidden or reserved by or with God*, (i.e. kept as a secret in his own breast, and concealed from the knowledge of mankind. How can you say or think with any colour that these times are fixed and manifest to all men, and that sinners are constantly punished in this life, and that so notoriously that all good men see it, as was said, [Job 22:15-19](/kjv/job/22/15-19)) *seeing* (as the particle you is rendered, [Job 19:28](/kjv/job/19/28); or *for*, as it is frequently used) *they that know him* (that give themselves to understand and consider his doings in the world, who of all men are most likely to know this, if it were true and certain) *do not see his days*, to wit, of punishing the wicked in this life? as was said before. 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