Job 24:2
Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof.
In Context
1Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?
3They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 19:14You shall not remove your neighbour's landmark, which they of old time have set in yours inheritance, which you shall inherit in the land that the LORD your God gives you to possess it.
Job 1:15And the Sabeans fell upon them, and took them away; yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell you.
Job 5:5Whose harvest the hungry eats up, and takes it even out of the thorns, and the robber swallows up their substance.
Proverbs 23:10Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into 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 →