Job 24:2
There are [men] who remove the landmarks. They take away flocks violently, and feed them.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof.
In Context
1Why are times not laid up by the Almighty? And why do those who know him not see his days?
3They drive away the donkey of the fatherless. They take the widow's ox for a pledge.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 19:14Thou shall not remove thy neighbor's landmark, which they of old time have set, in thine inheritance which thou shall inherit, in the land that LORD thy God gives thee to possess it.
Job 1:15and the Sabeans fell [upon them], and took them away. Yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword, and only I alone have escaped to tell thee.
Job 5:5whose harvest the hungry eat up, and takes it even out of the thorns, and the snare gapes for their substance.
Proverbs 23:10Remove not the ancient landmark. And enter not into the fields of the fatherless,
Matthew Henry on Job 24:2-13
Outward Prosperity of the Wicked. ( b. c. 1520.) 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… Read the whole commentary →