Why Does God Tolerate Injustice?

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"Why are times not kept by Shaddai? Why do those who know him not see his days?

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There are those who move boundary markers; they carry off flocks and pasture them;

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they drive away the orphan's donkey; as collateral, they seize the widow's ox.

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They push the needy out of the way -the poor of the land are forced into hiding;

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like wild donkeys in the wilderness, they have to go out and scavenge food, [hoping that] the desert will provide food for their children.

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They must reap in fields that are not their own and gather late grapes in the vineyards of the wicked.

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They pass the night without clothing, naked, uncovered in the cold,

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wet with mountain rain, and hugging the rock for lack of shelter.

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"There are those who pluck orphans from the breast and [those who] take [the clothes of] the poor in pledge,

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so that they go about stripped, unclothed; they go hungry, as they carry sheaves [of grain];

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between these men's rows [of olives], they make oil; treading their winepresses, they suffer thirst.

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Men are groaning in the city, the mortally wounded are crying for help, yet God finds nothing amiss!