Job 24:2
Boundaries, men move back, flocks, they seize and consume;
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof.
In Context
1Wherefore, since from the Almighty times are not hid, have, his knowing ones, no vision of his days?
3The ass of the fatherless, they drive off, they take in pledge the ox of the widow;
Cross References
Deuteronomy 19:14Thou shalt not move back the boundary of thy neighbour, by which they set bounds at first,—in thine inheritance which thou shall receive in the land which Yahweh thy God is giving thee to possess.
Job 1:15when the Sabeans swooped down, and took them, and, the young men, smote they with the edge of the sword,—and escaped am, only I alone, too tell thee.
Job 5:5Whose harvest, the hungry, eateth up, and, even out of thorn hedges, he taketh it, and the snare gapeth for their substance.
Proverbs 23:10Do not move back the ancient boundary, and, into the fields of the fatherless, do not enter;
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 →