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Job Complains of Violence on the Earth

24 ‘Why are times not kept by the Almighty,[a]
    and why do those who know him never see his days?
The wicked[b] remove landmarks;
    they seize flocks and pasture them.
They drive away the donkey of the orphan;
    they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 24:1 Traditional rendering of Heb Shaddai
  2. Job 24:2 Gk: Heb they

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