New English Translation
Job 24:2
2Men move boundary stones; they seize the flock and pasture them.
Job 24:2 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof.
- New International Version (NIV)There are those who move boundary stones; they pasture flocks they have stolen.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Some move landmarks; they seize flocks and pasture them.
- New King James Version (NKJV)“Some remove landmarks; They seize flocks violently and feed on them;
Context of Job 24:2
1“Why are times not appointed by the Almighty? Why do those who know him not see his days? Men move boundary stones; they seize the flock and pasture them. 3They drive away the orphan’s donkey; they take the widow’s ox as a pledge. 4They turn the needy from the pathway, and the poor of the land hide themselves together.
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גְּבֻל֥וֹת יַשִּׂ֑יגוּ עֵ֥דֶר גָּ֝זְל֗וּ וַיִּרְעֽוּ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 24:2
- Deuteronomy 19:14You must not encroach on your neighbor’s property, which will have been defined in the inheritance you will obtain in the land the Lord your God is giving you.
- Deuteronomy 27:17‘Cursed is the one who moves his neighbor’s boundary marker.’ Then all the people will say, ‘Amen!’
- Proverbs 22:28Do not move an ancient boundary stone which was put in place by your ancestors.
- Proverbs 23:10Do not move an ancient boundary stone, or take over the fields of the fatherless,
- Hosea 5:10The princes of Judah are like those who move boundary markers. I will pour out my rage on them like a torrential flood!
- Job 1:15and the Sabeans swooped down and carried them all away, and they killed the servants with the sword! And I – only I alone – escaped to tell you!”
- Job 5:5The hungry eat up his harvest, and take it even from behind the thorns, and the thirsty swallow up their fortune.
Commentaries on Job 24:2
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 2Some remove the landmarks - Stones or posts were originally set up to ascertain the bounds of particular estates: and this was necessary in open countries, before hedges and fences were formed. Wicked and covetous men often removed the landmarks or termini, and set them in on their neighbors' ground, that, by contracting their boundaries, they might enlarge their own. The law of Moses denounces curses on those who remove their neighbors' landmarks. See…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 2Some remove the land-marks - Landmarks are pillars or stones set up to mark the boundaries of a farm. To remove them, by carrying them on to the land of another, was an act of dishonesty and robbery - since it was only by marks that the extent of a man‘s property could be known. Fences were uncommon; the art of surveying was not well understood, and deeds describing land were probably unknown also, and their whole dependence, therefore, was on the stones…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 2The books of the law, wisdom literature, and prophecy all condemned moving markers of boundaries (Deuteronomy 19:14; 27:17; Proverbs 22:28; 23:10; see study note on Hosea 5:10).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2-242-24. Instances of the wicked doing the worst deeds with seeming impunity (Job 24:2-24). Some--the wicked. landmarks--boundaries between different pastures (De 19:14; Pr 22:28).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 24
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
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