Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version There are those who move boundary stones; they pasture flocks they have stolen. New Living Translation Evil people steal land by moving the boundary markers. They steal livestock and put them in their own pastures. English Standard Version Some move landmarks; they seize flocks and pasture them. Berean Standard Bible Men move boundary stones; they pasture stolen flocks. King James Bible Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof. New King James Version “Some remove landmarks; They seize flocks violently and feed on them; New American Standard Bible “People remove landmarks; They seize and devour flocks. NASB 1995 “Some remove the landmarks; They seize and devour flocks. NASB 1977 “Some remove the landmarks; They seize and devour flocks. Legacy Standard Bible Some move the boundaries; They seize and devour flocks. Amplified Bible “Some remove the landmarks; They [violently] seize and pasture flocks [appropriating land and flocks openly]. Christian Standard Bible The wicked displace boundary markers. They steal a flock and provide pasture for it. Holman Christian Standard Bible The wicked displace boundary markers. They steal a flock and provide pasture for it. American Standard Version There are that remove the landmarks; They violently take away flocks, and feed them. Aramaic Bible in Plain English And the border they have removed and the flock they have taken Brenton Septuagint Translation while the ungodly have passed over the bound, carrying off the flock with the shepherd? Contemporary English Version Sinners remove boundary markers and take care of sheep they have stolen. Douay-Rheims Bible Some have removed landmarks, have taken away flocks by force, and fed them. English Revised Version There are that remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed them. GOD'S WORD® Translation "[People] move boundary markers. They steal flocks and tend them as shepherds. Good News Translation People move property lines to get more land; they steal sheep and put them with their own flocks. International Standard Version They move boundary stones, steal flocks, and pasture them. JPS Tanakh 1917 There are that remove the landmarks; They violently take away flocks, and feed them. Literal Standard Version They reach the borders, | They have taken a drove away violently, | Indeed, they do evil. Majority Standard Bible Men move boundary stones; they pasture stolen flocks. New American Bible People remove landmarks; they steal herds and pasture them. NET Bible Men move boundary stones; they seize the flock and pasture them. New Revised Standard Version The wicked remove landmarks; they seize flocks and pasture them. New Heart English Bible There are people who remove the landmarks. They violently take away flocks, and feed them. Webster's Bible Translation Some remove the landmarks: they violently take away flocks, and their feed. World English Bible There are people who remove the landmarks. They violently take away flocks, and feed them. Young's Literal Translation The borders they reach, A drove they have taken violently away, Yea, they do evil. Additional Translations ... Context Job: Judgment for the Wicked1“Why does the Almighty not reserve times for judgment? Why may those who know Him never see His days? 2Men move boundary stones; they pasture stolen flocks. 3They drive away the donkey of the fatherless and take the widow’s ox in pledge.… Cross References Deuteronomy 19:14 You must not move your neighbor's boundary marker, which was set up by your ancestors to mark the inheritance you shall receive in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess. Deuteronomy 27:17 Cursed is he who moves his neighbor's boundary stone.' And let all the people say, 'Amen!' Job 20:19 For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor; he has seized houses he did not build. Job 31:38 if my land cries out against me and its furrows weep together, Proverbs 22:28 Do not move an ancient boundary stone which your fathers have placed. Proverbs 23:10 Do not move an ancient boundary stone or encroach on the fields of the fatherless, Treasury of Scripture Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof. landmarks Deuteronomy 19:14 Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's landmark, which they of old time have set in thine inheritance, which thou shalt inherit in the land that the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it. Deuteronomy 27:17 Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour's landmark. And all the people shall say, Amen. Proverbs 22:28 Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set. violently Job 1:15,17 And 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 thee… Job 5:5 Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance. feed thereof. Jump to Previous Borders Boundary Changed Devour Drove Evil Feed Flocks Keepers Move Pasture Reach Remove Seize Stolen Stones Thereof Together ViolentlyJump to Next Borders Boundary Changed Devour Drove Evil Feed Flocks Keepers Move Pasture Reach Remove Seize Stolen Stones Thereof Together ViolentlyJob 24 1. Wickedness often goes unpunished17. There is a secret judgment for the wicked (2) Some remove the landmarks.--Now follows a description of the wrong-doings of various classes of men. The removal of landmarks was expressly provided against by the Mosaic Law (Deuteronomy 19:14; Deuteronomy 27:17). And feed thereof.--Rather, probably, feed them: i.e., pasture them, the more easy to do when the landmarks are so removed. Verse 2. - Some remove the landmarks. (On this form of wickedness, see Deuteronomy 19:14; Deuteronomy 27:17; Proverbs 22:28; Proverbs 23:10; Hosea 5:10.) Where neighbouring properties are not divided by fences of any kind, as in the East generally, the only way of distinguishing between one man's land and another's is by termini, or "landmarks," which are generally low stone metes or bourns, placed at intervals on the boundary-line. An easy form of robbery was to displace these bourns, putting them further back on one's neighbour's land. They violently take away flocks. Others openly drive off their neighbours' flocks from their pastures, mix them with their own flocks, and say that they are theirs (comp. Job 1:15-17). And feed thereof; rather, and feed them (as in the margin); i.e. pasture them.Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew Men moveיַשִּׂ֑יגוּ (yaś·śî·ḡū) Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - third person masculine plural Strong's 5381: To reach, overtake boundary stones; גְּבֻל֥וֹת (gə·ḇu·lō·wṯ) Noun - feminine plural Strong's 1367: A boundary, region they pasture וַיִּרְעֽוּ׃ (way·yir·‘ū) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural Strong's 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 1497: To pluck off, to flay, strip, rob flocks. עֵ֥דֶר (‘ê·ḏer) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 5739: An arrangement, muster Links Job 24:2 NIVJob 24:2 NLT Job 24:2 ESV Job 24:2 NASB Job 24:2 KJV Job 24:2 BibleApps.com Job 24:2 Biblia Paralela Job 24:2 Chinese Bible Job 24:2 French Bible Job 24:2 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Job 24:2 There are people who remove the landmarks (Jb) |