Job 24:2

The borders they reach, A drove they have taken violently away, Yea, they do evil.

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

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

In Context

1Wherefore from the Mighty One Times have not been hidden, And those knowing Him have not seen His days.

3The ass of the fatherless they lead away, They take in pledge the ox of the widow,

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 19:14'Thou dost not remove a border of thy neighbour, which they of former times have made, in thine inheritance, which thou dost inherit in the land which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee to possess it.

Job 1:15and Sheba doth fall, and take them, and the young men they have smitten by the mouth of the sword, and I am escaped — only I alone — to declare [it] to thee.'

Job 5:5Whose harvest the hungry doth eat, And even from the thorns taketh it, And the designing swallowed their wealth.

Proverbs 23:10Remove not a border of olden times, And into fields of the fatherless enter not,

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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