They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope at noonday as in the night.

In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the day-time: they know not the light.

That I have kept back for a time of distress, For a day of conflict and battle.

“[O God] turn your gaze from him so that he may rest,
Until he fulfills his day [on earth] like a hired man.

Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of a hireling?

In time of famine he will redeem you from death, and in time of war from the power of the sword.

He breaks through against me, time and time again; he rushes against me like a warrior.

"For God speaks, the first time in one way, the second time in another, though a person does not perceive it.

When their time of feasting had concluded, Job would rise early in the morning to send for them and consecrate them to God. He would offer a burnt offering for each one, because Job thought, "Perhaps my children sinned by cursing God in their hearts." Job did this time and again.