10 Bible Verses about Untimeliness

Jacob said, “Look, the sun is still high [overhead]; it is a long time before the flocks need to be gathered [in their folds for the night]. Water the sheep, and go, and return them to their pasture.”

who say, ‘Is not the time near to build houses? This city is [secure just like] the pot and we are the meat [in it].’

“Is it time for you yourselves to live in your [expensive] paneled houses while this house [of the Lord] lies in ruins?”

Elisha said to him, “Did my heart not go with you, when the man turned from his chariot to meet you? Is it a [proper] time to accept money and clothing and olive orchards and vineyards and sheep and oxen and male and female servants?

“Thus says the Lord of hosts: ‘These people say, “The time has not come that the Lord’s house (temple) should be rebuilt.”’”

And they screamed out, “What business do we have [in common] with each other, Son of God? Have You come to torment us before the appointed time [of judgment]?”

Jesus said to her, “[Dear] woman, what is that to you and to Me? My time [to act and to be revealed] has not yet come.”

So Jesus said to them, “My time has not yet come; but any time is right for you.

So they were eager to arrest Him; but no one laid a hand on Him, because His time had not yet come.

and last of all, as to one untimely (prematurely, traumatically) born, He appeared to me also.