Job 24:2
Some evil people remove the markers of boundaries of other people’s land, in order to steal their land; they seize/steal other people’s sheep and put them in their own pastures.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof.
In Context
Cross References
Deuteronomy 19:14“ When you are living in the land that Yahweh our God is giving to you, do not move the markers of your neighbors’ property boundaries which were placed there long ago.”
Job 1:15a group of men from the Sheba area came and attacked us. They killed all your servants who were working in the fields and took away all the oxen and donkeys! I am the only one who escaped to come and tell you what happened.”
Job 5:5Hungry people steal the crops that foolish people harvest, and eat those crops; they even steal the crops that grow among thorns, and greedy people take away the wealth of foolish people.
Proverbs 23:10Do not steal someone’s property by removing a boundary marker that has been there for a long time, and do not take for yourself the land that belongs to orphans,
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 →