Job 24:2

[The wicked] remove landmarks: they rob flocks, and feed them.

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof.

In Context

1Why are not times [of punishment] treasured up by the Almighty, and why do his adorers not see his days [of retribution]?

3They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take in pledge the widow's ox.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 19:14Thou shalt not remove the landmark of thy neighbor, which they of old time have set, in thy inheritance which thou shalt inherit, in the land that the Lord thy God giveth thee to possess it.

Job 1:15When the Sabeans made an incursion, and took them away, and the young men they slew with the edge of the sword; and I am escaped, none but myself alone, to tell it unto thee.

Job 5:5[He it is] whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber snatcheth eagerly after their substance.

Proverbs 23:10Remove not the ancient landmark, and into the fields of the fatherless must thou not enter;

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 →

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