Job 24:1

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Job 24:1–3 · Berean Standard Bible

1 “Why does the Almighty not reserve times for judgment? Why may those who know Him never see His days?

2 Men move boundary stones; they pasture stolen flocks.

3 They drive away the donkey of the fatherless and take the widow’s ox in pledge.

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Psalms 31:15

My times are in Your hands; deliver me from my enemies and from those who pursue me.

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.

Ecclesiastes 8:7

Since no one knows what will happen, who can tell him what is to come?

Ecclesiastes 9:11

I saw something else under the sun: The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong; neither is the bread to the wise, nor the wealth to the intelligent, nor the favor to the skillful. For time and chance happen to all.

Ecclesiastes 9:12

For surely no man knows his time: Like fish caught in a cruel net or birds trapped in a snare, so men are ensnared in an evil time that suddenly falls upon them.

Isaiah 60:22

The 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.

Daniel 2:21

He changes the times and seasons; He removes kings and establishes them. He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to the discerning.

Luke 21:22

For these are the days of vengeance, to fulfill all that is written.

Luke 21:23

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.

Luke 21:24

They will fall by the edge of the sword and be led captive into all the nations. And Jerusalem will be trodden down by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.

Acts 1:7

Jesus replied, “It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by His own authority.

Acts 17:26

From one man He made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and He determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their lands.

1 Thessalonians 5:1

Now about the times and seasons, brothers, we do not need to write to you.

1 Timothy 4:1

Now the Spirit expressly states that in later times some will abandon the faith to follow deceitful spirits and the teachings of demons,

1 Timothy 6:15

which the blessed and only Sovereign One—the King of kings and Lord of lords—will bring about in His own time.

2 Peter 2:3

In their greed, these false teachers will exploit you with deceptive words. The longstanding verdict against them remains in force, and their destruction does not sleep.

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.

2 Peter 3:8

Beloved, do not let this one thing escape your notice: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day.

Psalms 9:10

Those who know Your name trust in You, for You, O LORD, have not forsaken those who seek You.

Psalms 36:10

Extend Your loving devotion to those who know You, and Your righteousness to the upright in heart.

John 17:3

Now this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom You have sent.

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,

Genesis 18:21

I will go down to see if their actions fully justify the outcry that has reached Me. If not, I will find out.”

Psalms 73:16

When I tried to understand all this, it was troublesome in my sight

Psalms 73:17

until I entered God’s sanctuary; then I discerned their end.

Psalms 73:18

Surely You set them on slick ground; You cast them down into ruin.

Psalms 73:19

How suddenly they are laid waste, completely swept away by terrors!

Jeremiah 12:1

Righteous are You, O LORD, when I plead before You. Yet about Your judgments I wish to contend with You: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all the faithless live at ease?

Jeremiah 12:2

You planted them, and they have taken root. They have grown and produced fruit. You are ever on their lips, but far from their hearts.

Jeremiah 12:3

But You know me, O LORD; You see me and test my heart toward You. Drag away the wicked like sheep to the slaughter and set them apart for the day of carnage.

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.

Romans 2:5

But 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.