Job 24:2

Some move the boundary stones; 1 they steal edar, and pasture them. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

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

In Context

1Why are times [for judgment] 1 from Shaddai not kept, 1 and why do those who have da'as of him not see his yamim (days [of assize])? 1

3They drive away the chamor of the yetomim, 1 they take the ox of the almanah for a pledge. 1

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 19:14Thou shalt not remove thy neighborʼs landmark, which they of old time have set in thine nachalah, which thou shalt inherit in the eretz that Hashem Eloheicha giveth thee to possess it.

Job 1:15And the Sabeans attacked, and took them away; yea, they have slain the na'arim with the edge of the cherev; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.

Job 5:5Whose katzir (harvest) the hungry eateth up, 1 and taketh it even from among of the tzinnim (thorns), 1 and the intriguer pants after their wealth. 1

Proverbs 23:10Remove not the gevul olam (ancient landmark); 1 and enter not into the sadot of the yetomim (fatherless ones, orphans), 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 →

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