It is time for thee, LORD, to work: for they have made void thy law.
It is time for thee, Lord, to work; (for) they have made void thy law. "To work;" or, literally, 'to do (it)'-namely, to vindicate thy servant by saving him from his oppressors (Psalms 119:121-123). So 'do' is used absolutely, Psalms 22:31; Psalms 52:9; Isaiah 44:23. Here the pagan are charged with breaking God's law-namely, by oppressing Israel, in violation of God's law of righteousness and love written on the conscience in some degree, however in part effaced by degeneracy. The same charge against the inhabitants of the earth is brought in Isaiah 24:5. This is the ground of the universal judgment, and of the condemnation of the guilty in all places and ages (Romans 2:12-16). The Book of Job, which concerns one not of Abraham's race, yet regulated by the fear of God and the principles of righteousness, preserved by tradition among some of the Gentiles, shows that the law of God, even in the Old Testament, was not altogether confined to the elect nation.