Job 24:2
There are people who remove the landmarks. They violently take away flocks, and feed them.
World Messianic Bible
In The King James Version
Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof.
In Context
1“Why aren’t times laid up by the Almighty? Why don’t those who know him see his days?
3They drive away the donkey of the fatherless, and they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 19:14You shall not remove your neighbor’s landmark, which they of old time have set, in your inheritance which you shall inherit, in the land that the LORD your God gives you to possess.
Job 1:15and the Sabeans attacked, and took them away. Yes, they have killed the servants with the edge of the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you.”
Job 5:5whose harvest the hungry eat up, and take it even out of the thorns. The snare gapes for their substance.
Proverbs 23:10Don’t move the ancient boundary stone. Don’t encroach on the 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 →