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Job Says God Seems to Ignore Wrongs

¹ "^(C1)Why are ^(F1)times not stored up by the Almighty,
And why do those who know Him not see ^(C2)His ^(F1)days?

² "People ^(C1)remove landmarks;
They seize and ^(F1)devour flocks.

³ "They drive away the donkeys of ^(C1)orphans;
They seize the ^(C2)widow's ox as a pledge.

⁴ "They push ^(C1)the needy aside from the road;
The ^(C2)poor of the land have to hide themselves together.

⁵ "Behold, like ^(C1)wild donkeys in the wilderness
They ^(C2)go out scavenging for food in their activity,
As ^(F1)bread for their children in the desert.

⁶ "They harvest their feed in the field
And glean the vineyard of the wicked.

⁷ "^(C1)They spend the night naked, without clothing,
And have no covering against the cold.

⁸ "They are wet from the mountain rains,
And they hug the rock for lack of a shelter.

⁹ "Others snatch an ^(C1)orphan from the breast,
And they seize it as a pledge against the poor.

¹⁰ "The poor move about naked without clothing,
And they carry sheaves, while going hungry.

¹¹ "Within the walls they produce oil;
They tread wine presses but go thirsty.

¹² "From the city people groan,
And the souls of the wounded cry for help;
Yet God ^(C1)does not pay attention to the offensiveness.

¹³ "^(F1)Others have been with those who rebel against the light;
They do not want to know its ways
Nor stay in its paths.

¹⁴ "The murderer ^(C1)arises at dawn;
He ^(C2)kills the poor and the needy,
And at night he is like a thief.

¹⁵ "The eye of the ^(C1)adulterer watches for ^(F1)twilight,
Saying, 'No eye will see me.'
And he ^(F2)disguises his face.

¹⁶ "In the darkness they ^(C1)dig into houses,
They ^(C2)shut themselves up by day;
They do not know the light.

¹⁷ "For the morning is the same to him as thick darkness,
For he is familiar with the ^(C1)terrors of thick darkness.

¹⁸ "They are ^(F1)(C1)insignificant on the surface of the water;
Their plot of land on the earth is ^(C2)cursed.
They do not turn ^(F2)toward the ^(C3)vineyards.

¹⁹ "Dryness and heat ^(C1)snatch away the snow waters,
As ^(F1)(C2)Sheol snatches those who have sinned.

²⁰ "A ^(F1)(C1)mother will forget him;
The ^(C2)maggot feeds sweetly until he is ^(C3)no longer remembered.
And injustice will be broken ^(C4)like a tree.

²¹ "He wrongs the ^(F1)infertile woman,
And does no good for ^(C1)the widow.

²² "But He drags off the mighty by ^(C1)His power;
He rises, but ^(C2)no one has assurance of life.

²³ "He provides them ^(C1)with security, and they are supported;
And His ^(C2)eyes are on their ways.

²⁴ "They are exalted a ^(C1)little while, then they are gone;
Moreover, they are ^(C2)brought low, and like everything they are gathered up;
Like the heads of grain they wither.

²⁵ "Now if it is not so, ^(C1)who can prove me a liar,
And make my speech worthless?"