פירוש על איוב 10:17

Your witnesses to testify about the changes of the ailments and the pains.

Change cannot occur outside time. God is beyond time, and therefore neither He nor His Knowledge can change. Man exists in time and so is subject to change. Because of this, his actions appear to change at every moment, at his volition. This gives rise to the appearance of free-will. But it is an illusion, associated with our sense that time flows. For in truth, God's immutable foreknowledge has predetermined man's actions. Being part of His Knowledge, they too are immutable and beyond time. So why should man be punished for them?

with set times are with me Times set for these my tortures, which serve (once) and [then] repeatedly shift with changes different from these, and serve again.