(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 everyone 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;
Job here instanceth, in a variety of most oppressive cases, the prosperity of bad men, against whom no judgment is immediately executed: and from thence Job leaves his friends to make their conclusions. He beautifully represents the tyranny and injustice of proud and oppressive men; of infamous robbers of their property, in removing the ancient land marks; of perverters of right paths, in turning the needy out of his way; of violently seizing the flocks of the poor; of depriving the laborer of his hire; and, in short, in doing all manner of injustice; and yet, because judgment is not executed speedily upon the wicked, who would infer, that either times, or things, or persons, are hidden from the Almighty?