Why Are Times Not Kept by Shadday?

Why Are Times Not Kept By Shadday?
Job 24: 1-25

Some time ago I used to follow a set of daily scriptural readings called Daily Light on the Daily Path that included verses on different topics for each morning and evening. The verses were printed on the main body of the page, and the references at the bottom of the page so that you could look them up in the Bible, though the purpose of the readings hardly made it necessary. I was in the hospital once and had lots of spare time, so I started looking up the verses in their context and found to my consternation and puzzlement that many of the encouraging verses about God and God’s relationship with us came from the words of Job’s friends, whom I knew to be the bad guys in the book. Further, many of Job’s own statements were indistinguishable from those of his friends and also indistinguishable from God’s own statements when God finally appears to Job. It suggested that the problem with the friends’ statements isn’t that they are fundamentally untrue but that the friends are absolutizing them. Job, however, reacts in the opposite direction and risks implying that they contain no truth at all...