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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?(A)
The wicked[b] remove landmarks;
    they seize flocks and pasture them.(B)
They drive away the donkey of the orphan;
    they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.(C)
They thrust the needy off the road;
    the poor of the earth all hide themselves.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. 24.1 Traditional rendering of Heb Shaddai
  2. 24.2 Gk: Heb they