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Job continues to speak[a]

24 Why has Almighty God not yet decided the time
    when he will judge wicked people?
People who serve him faithfully continue to wait for justice.
Wicked men move the stones that show the edge of their neighbour's land.[b]
    They take their neighbour's land and his sheep for themselves.

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Footnotes

  1. 24:1 In chapter 24, Job speaks about the bad things that happen in the world. He does not understand why God does not punish bad people. Then he remembers that bad people die in the end, like everyone else.
  2. 24:2 See Deuteronomy 19:14; 27:17.

24 “Why does the Almighty not set times(A) for judgment?(B)
    Why must those who know him look in vain for such days?(C)
There are those who move boundary stones;(D)
    they pasture flocks they have stolen.(E)

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