Job 24:2
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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:

Lexicon
Men move
יַשִּׂ֑יגוּ (yaś·śî·ḡū)
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 5381: To reach, overtake

boundary stones;
גְּבֻל֥וֹת (gə·ḇu·lō·wṯ)
Noun - feminine plural
Strong's Hebrew 1367: A boundary, region

they pasture
וַיִּרְעֽוּ׃ (way·yir·‘ū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 7462: To tend a, flock, pasture it, in, to graze, to rule, to associate with

stolen
גָּ֝זְל֗וּ (gā·zə·lū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 1497: To pluck off, to flay, strip, rob

flocks.
עֵ֥דֶר (‘ê·ḏer)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5739: An arrangement, muster


Additional Translations
Men move boundary stones; they pasture stolen flocks.Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof.

There are that remove the landmarks; They violently take away flocks, and feed them.

while the ungodly have passed over the bound, carrying off the flock with the shepherd?

They remove the landmarks; they violently take away the flocks and pasture them;

There are that remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed them.

Some remove the landmarks: they violently take away flocks, and their feed.

There are people who remove the landmarks. They violently take away flocks, and feed them.

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