Some remove landmarks; some seize flocks and pasture them, beginning the catalog of social injustice that characterizes human behavior when divine oversight seems absent or ineffective. The removal of landmarks—fundamental to agricultural society and justice—represents the fundamental violation of social order, the theft of boundaries that organize community and inheritance. The seizing of flocks for pasturage transforms the property of others into sustenance for the wicked, suggesting systematic exploitation of the vulnerable. These opening examples of injustice establish the empirical foundation for Job's complaint: the world contains visible, documented wrongdoing that prospers despite divine omniscience.

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