Job 24:2
Some have crossed the boundaries, plundered the flocks, and given them pasture.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof.
In Context
1The times are not hidden from the Almighty; even those who know him, do not know his days.
3They have driven away the donkey of orphans, and have taken the cow from the widow as collateral.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 19:14You shall not take up or move the landmark of your neighbor, which those before you have placed, in your possession that the Lord your God will give to you, in the land you will receive to possess.
Job 1:15and the Sabeans rushed in and carried away everything, and they struck the servants with the sword; and I alone evaded them to tell you.”
Job 5:5Their harvest, the starving will eat. The armed man will rob him, and the thirsty will drink his resources.
Proverbs 23:10Do not touch the boundaries of little ones, and do not enter into the field 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 →