Job 24:2
Some have removed landmarks, have taken away flocks by force, and fed them.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof.
In Context
1Times are not hid from the Almighty: but they that know him, know not his days.
3They have driven away the ass of the fatherless, and have taken away the widow's ox for a pledge.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 19:14Thou shalt not take nor remove thy neighbour's landmark, which thy predecessors have set in thy possession. which the Lord thy God will give thee in the land that thou shalt receive to possess.
Job 1:15And the Sabeans rushed in, and took all away, and slew the servants with the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell thee.
Job 5:5Whose harvest the hungry shall eat, and the armed man shall take him by violence, and the thirsty shall drink up his riches.
Proverbs 23:10Touch not the bounds of little ones: and enter not 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 →