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Job points out that many wicked people seem to escape accountability. Thieves, oppressors, murderers, and adulterers often hide in darkness and prosper temporarily. He lists several injustices: mistreated widows, orphans pushed off the road, the poor forced into survival mode. Job is not accusing God—he is acknowledging the mystery of living in a fallen world where evil sometimes appears to succeed. But he still believes the wicked will ultimately fall. Their prosperity is brief; their judgment is certain. This chapter addresses a deep question: Why does God allow injustice? Job teaches that God’s justice operates on an eternal scale, not always in the immediate present.
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