Job 24:2
While the ungodly have passed over the bound, 1 Carrying off the flock with the shepherd? 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof.
In Context
1But why have the seasons been hidden from the Lord, 1
3They have led away the ass of the fatherless, 1 And taken the widow’s ox for a pledge. 1
Cross References
Deuteronomy 19:14Thou shalt not move the landmarks of thy neighbor, which thy fathers set in the inheritance, in which thou hast obtained a share in the land, which the Lord thy God gives thee to inherit.
Job 1:15And the spoilers came and took them for a prey, 1 And slew the servants with the sword; 1 And I having escaped alone am come to tell thee. 1
Job 5:5For what they have collected, the just shall eat; 1 But they shall not be delivered out of calamities: 1 Let their strength be utterly exhausted. 1
Proverbs 23:10Remove not the ancient landmarks; 1 And enter not upon the possession of the fatherless: 1
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 →