Why Does God Tolerate Injustice?

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“Why aren’t times laid up by the Almighty? Why don’t those who know him see his days?

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There are people who remove the landmarks. They violently take away flocks, and feed them.

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They drive away the donkey of the fatherless, and they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.

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They turn the needy out of the way. The poor of the earth all hide themselves.

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Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, they go out to their work, seeking diligently for food. The wilderness yields them bread for their children.

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They cut their provender in the field. They glean the vineyard of the wicked.

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They lie all night naked without clothing, and have no covering in the cold.

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They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for lack of a shelter.

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There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor,

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So that they go around naked without clothing. Being hungry, they carry the sheaves.

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They make oil within the walls of these men. They tread wine presses, and suffer thirst.

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From out of the populous city, men groan. The soul of the wounded cries out, yet God doesn’t regard the folly.