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Job 24 Summary
Wickedness and Oppression Go Unpunished
Job questions why times are hidden from the Almighty if He is truly just. He describes widespread wickedness: the removal of landmarks, violent seizure of flocks, driving away the donkeys of the fatherless, pledging the widow's ox, and forcing the needy from their paths. The poor hide while the wicked work like wild asses in the desert, reaping grain and gathering vintage, leaving the naked without shelter in cold and rain. They pluck the fatherless from the breast, take pledges from the poor, cause them to go naked, and steal sheaves from the hungry. These murderers and adulterers work by darkness and light, yet God does not reckon folly to them, and though they are exalted for a time, they are cut off like the tops of grain.
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Key verses
Job 24:2-4
“Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof.”
Job 24:9-10
“They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.”
Job 24:13-16
“They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.”
Job 24:24
“They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all other, and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.”
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