New King James Version
Job 24:2
2“Some remove landmarks; They seize flocks violently and feed on 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 Living Translation (NLT)Evil people steal land by moving the boundary markers. They steal livestock and put them in their own pastures.
Context of Job 24:2
1“Since times are not hidden from the Almighty, Why do those who know Him see not His days? “Some remove landmarks; They seize flocks violently and feed on them; 3They drive away the donkey of the fatherless; They take the widow’s ox as a pledge. 4They push the needy off the road; All the poor of the land are forced to hide.
Read all of Job 24Job 24:2 word by word
גְּבֻל֥וֹת יַשִּׂ֑יגוּ עֵ֥דֶר גָּ֝זְל֗וּ וַיִּרְעֽוּ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 24:2
- Deuteronomy 19:14“You shall not remove your neighbor’s landmark, which the men of old have set, in your inheritance which you will inherit in the land that the Lord your God is giving you to possess.
- Deuteronomy 27:17‘Cursed is the one who moves his neighbor’s landmark.’ “And all the people shall say, ‘Amen!’
- Proverbs 22:28Do not remove the ancient landmark Which your fathers have set.
- Proverbs 23:10Do not remove the ancient landmark, Nor enter the fields of the fatherless;
- Hosea 5:10“The princes of Judah are like those who remove a landmark; I will pour out My wrath on them like water.
- Job 1:15when the Sabeans raided them and took them away—indeed they have killed the servants with the edge of the sword; and I alone have escaped to tell you!”
- Job 5:5Because the hungry eat up his harvest, Taking it even from the thorns, And a snare snatches their substance.
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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