Job 24:2

They reach the borders, || They have taken a drove away violently, || Indeed, they do evil.

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

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

In Context

1“For this reason from the Mighty One || Times have not been hidden, || And those knowing Him have not seen His days.

3They lead away the donkey of the fatherless, || They take in pledge the ox of the widow,

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 19:14You do not remove a border of your neighbor, which they of former times have made, in your inheritance, which you inherit in the land which your God YHWH is giving to you to possess it.

Job 1:15and Sheba falls, and takes them, and they have struck the young men by the mouth of the sword, and I have escaped—only I alone—to declare [it] to you.”

Job 5:5Whose harvest the hungry eat, || And even take it from the thorns, || And the designing swallowed their wealth.

Proverbs 23:10Do not remove a border of ancient times, || And do not enter into 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 →

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