Job 24:2

There are wicked people who remove boundary markers; 1 there are wicked people who take away flocks by force and put them in their own pastures. 1

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

1Why are times for judging wicked people not set by the Almighty? 1 Why do not those who are faithful to God see his days of judgment come? 1

3They drive away the donkey of those without fathers; 1 they take the widow's ox as security. 1

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 19:14You must not remove your neighbor's landmark that they set in place a long time ago, in your inheritance that you will inherit, in the land that Yahweh your God is giving you to possess.

Job 1:15Then the Sabeans fell on them and took them away. As for the servants, they have struck them with the edge of the sword. I alone have escaped to tell you.”

Job 5:5The hungry eat up their harvest; 1 they even take it from among the thorns. 1 The thirsty pant for their wealth. 1

Proverbs 23:10Do not move an ancient boundary stone 1 or encroach on the fields of 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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