Job 24:2
1 Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?
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.
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Men move boundary stones; they pasture stolen flocks.
- KJV
- Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof.
- WEB
- There are people who remove the landmarks. They violently take away flocks, and feed them.
- ASV
- There are that remove the landmarks; They violently take away flocks, and feed them.
- DARBY
- They remove the landmarks; they violently take away the flocks and pasture them;
- BLB
- They move boundary markers; they seize a flock and pasture it.
- ÅB
- Folk flytter grenseskjell; de raner fe og fører det på beite.
- OTB
- Folk flytter grensesteiner;
De tar og fortærer flokker. - B1930
- Folk flytter grenseskjell; de raner fe og fører det på beite.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Deuteronomy 19:14
Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour’s landmark, which they of old time have set in thine inheritance, which thou shalt inherit in the land that the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 27:17
Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour’s landmark. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Read in contextProverbs 23:10
Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
Read in contextProverbs 22:28
Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.
Read in contextHosea 5:10
The princes of Judah were like them that remove the bound: therefore I will pour out my wrath upon them like water.
Read in contextJob 5:5
Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.
Read in contextJob 1:17
While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The Chaldeans made out three bands, and fell upon the camels, and have carried them away, yea, and slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
Read in contextJob 1:15
And the Sabeans fell upon them, and took them away; yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
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