Job 24 Bible study: Why aren't times laid up?

Every word of this chapter is Job's. His answer began, "Then Job answered" (23:1); chapter 24 has no heading of its own, and the next heading is "Then Bildad the Shuhite answered" (25:1). A few verses earlier Job had said of God, "I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food" (23:12). Now he asks, "Why aren’t times laid up by the Almighty? Why don’t those who know him see his days?" (24:1) (tap laid up, times). In Hebrew laid up is the verb of 23:12's treasured up. The verse doesn't say which times, and these notes don't guess. Then Job says what goes on meanwhile: "There are people who remove the landmarks. They violently take away flocks, and feed them" (24:2) (tap landmarks). "They drive away the donkey of the fatherless, and they take the widow’s ox for a pledge" (24:3) (tap widow, pledge). "They turn the needy out of the way. The poor of the earth all hide themselves" (24:4). He speaks of people who go out "as wild donkeys in the desert … seeking diligently for food" (24:5), who "lie all night naked without clothing, and have no covering in the cold" (24:7) (tap naked), who "embrace the rock for lack of a shelter" (24:8). "Being hungry, they carry the sheaves" (24:10), and "They tread wine presses, and suffer thirst" (24:11). Then: "From out of the populous city, men groan. The soul of the wounded cries out, yet God doesn’t regard the folly" (24:12) (tap cries out, folly).

תִּפְלָהtiflahsay tif-LAH

Brown-Driver-Briggs: "(moral) unsavouriness, unseemliness". Strong's: "frivolity". "The soul of the wounded cries out, yet God doesn’t regard the folly" (24:12). The word comes only three times in the Hebrew Bible, twice in Job. The other in Job is "In all this, Job didn’t sin, nor charge God with wrongdoing" (1:22), where wrongdoing is this word. The third is "I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria" (Jeremiah 23:13).