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Bible study · Job 24:1-25

Job 24: Why aren't times laid up?

Read Job 24:1-25 before you meet.

In a few lines

In 1:22 the book says Job didn't charge God with tiflah; in 24:12 Job says God "doesn’t regard" the tiflah: the same rare word, found only three times in the Hebrew Bible. And the Hebrew words of Eliphaz's charges against Job (pledges, the naked, widows, 22:6-9) come again in Job's list of wrongs (24:3-10).

The verse to carry

“Why aren’t times laid up by the Almighty? Why don’t those who know him see his days?”

Job 24:1

To talk about

  1. 1. Job asks, "Why aren’t times laid up by the Almighty? Why don’t those who know him see his days?" (24:1). When have you had a question about God that you couldn't settle, and what did you do with it?

  2. 2. "The poor of the earth all hide themselves" (24:4). Who in your own life might be easy to overlook, and what would it take to notice them this week?

  3. 3. The adulterer says, "No eye will see me" (24:15). What helps you live the same way in the dark as in the daylight?

Prayer requests