Kommentar zu Ijow 24:1

Why were the times not hidden from the Almighty? This is a plaint. Why were the times of man’s days not hidden from the Holy One, blessed be He, that He should not know the day of man’s death? Perhaps He would not hasten the retribution, and the day of death would precede it.

Job ends his rebuttal of Eliphaz’s rationalization of his suffering by repeating his assertion that since God is above time, He does not rule over those voluntary acts that occur under time and which change with time, for His Knowledge cannot be subject to time. God has no sense of time as any student of divinity will tell you.⁶This verse (Ch. 24:1) seems to belong to the end of Chapter 23 rather than to the beginning of Chapter 24.

And He Who knows him should not see his days Of the day of man, like (Gen. 29:14), “a month of days (ימים),” (which is translated into Aramaic as “from time to time.”) [Another explanation is:] Why are those who are close and who love the Holy One, blessed be He, unable to see the end of His ways and His traits?

This [word] ימיו, His days, denotes the way He acted in His time, like (below 27:6), “my heart will not reproach me because of my days.” [See Rashi ad loc.] Now what are the puzzling traits?