Why Does God Tolerate Injustice?

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“Why does the Almighty not reserve times for judgment? Why may those who know Him never see His days?

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Men move boundary stones; they pasture stolen flocks.

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They drive away the donkey of the fatherless and take the widow’s ox in pledge.

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They push the needy off the road and force all the poor of the land into hiding.

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Indeed, like wild donkeys in the desert, the poor go to work foraging for food; the wasteland is food for their children.

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They gather fodder in the fields and glean the vineyards of the wicked.

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Without clothing, they spend the night naked; they have no covering against the cold.

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Drenched by mountain rains, they huddle against the rocks for want of shelter.

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The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast; the nursing child of the poor is seized for a debt.

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Without clothing, they wander about naked. They carry the sheaves, but still go hungry.

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They crush olives within their walls; they tread the winepresses, but go thirsty.

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From the city, men groan, and the souls of the wounded cry out, yet God charges no one with wrongdoing.