Job 24:2
Good News Translation
People move property lines to get more land; they steal sheep and put them with their own flocks.

New Revised Standard Version
The wicked remove landmarks; they seize flocks and pasture them.

Contemporary English Version
Sinners remove boundary markers and take care of sheep they have stolen.

New American Bible
People remove landmarks; they steal herds and pasture them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Some have removed landmarks, have taken away flocks by force, and fed them.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Some have removed landmarks, have taken away flocks by force, and fed them.

landmarks

Deuteronomy 19:14 Thou shalt not take nor remove thy neighbour's landmark, which thy predecessors have set in thy possession, which the Lord thy God will give thee in the land that thou shalt receive to possess.

Deuteronomy 27:17 Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour's landmarks: and all the people shall say: Amen.

Proverbs 22:28 Pass not beyond the ancient bounds which thy fathers have set.

Proverbs 23:10 Touch not the bounds of little ones: and enter not into the field of the fatherless:

Hosea 5:10 The princes of Juda are become as they that take up the bound: I will pour out my wrath upon them like water.

violently

Job 1:15,17 And the Sabeans rushed in, and took all away, and slew the servants with the sword; and I alone have escaped to tell thee. . . .

Job 5:5 Whose harvest the hungry shall eat, and the armed man shall take him by violence, and the thirsty shall drink up his riches.

feed thereof.

Context
Job: Judgment for the Wicked
1Times are not hid from the Almighty: but they that know him, know not his days. 2Some have removed landmarks, have taken away flocks by force, and fed them.3They have driven away the ass of the fatherless, and have taken away the widow's ox for a pledge.…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 19:14
Thou shalt not take nor remove thy neighbour's landmark, which thy predecessors have set in thy possession, which the Lord thy God will give thee in the land that thou shalt receive to possess.

Deuteronomy 27:17
Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour's landmarks: and all the people shall say: Amen.

Job 20:19
Because he broke in and stripped the poor: he hath violently taken away a house which he did not build.

Job 31:38
If my land cry against me, and with it the furrows thereof mourn:

Proverbs 22:28
Pass not beyond the ancient bounds which thy fathers have set.

Proverbs 23:10
Touch not the bounds of little ones: and enter not into the field of the fatherless:

Job 24:1
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