Job Describes Social Injustice

Job 24:1-17

[1] Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days? [2] Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof. [3] They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge. [4] They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together. [5] Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children. [6] They reap every one his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked. [7] They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold. [8] They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter. [9] They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor. [10] They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry; [11] Which make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst. [12] Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them. [13] They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof. [14] The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief. [15] The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face. [16] In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light. [17] For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death: if one know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.

Job 3:1

After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.

Genesis 5:21

And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah:

Job 11:14

If iniquity be in thine hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles.

Job 24:12

Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.

Job 24:14

The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.

Job 26:6

Hell is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering.

Job 32:5

When Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of these three men, then his wrath was kindled.

Job 34:1

Furthermore Elihu answered and said,

Job 34:5

For Job hath said, I am righteous: and God hath taken away my judgment.

Job 40:7

Gird up thy loins now like a man: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.

Job 5:16

So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.

Leviticus 19:15

Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.