Job 24 · Verse 2

Job 24:2

Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof.
Job 24:2, King James Version

Job 24:2 in other translations

BSBMen move boundary stones; they pasture stolen flocks.
WEBThere are people who remove the landmarks. They violently take away flocks, and feed them.
ASVThere are that remove the landmarks; They violently take away flocks, and feed them.
YLTThe borders they reach, A drove they have taken violently away, Yea, they do evil.
DARBYThey remove the landmarks; they violently take away the flocks and pasture them;
BBEThe landmarks are changed by evil men, they violently take away flocks, together with their keepers.
WebsterSome remove the landmarks: they violently take away flocks, and their feed.

What does Job 24:2 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Job 24:2-25
2-24. 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).

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 2 Some 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 Deu 19:14; Deu 27:17, and the note on the former place, where the subject is considered at large. They violently take away flocks, and feed thereof - Mr. Good translates ירעו yiru, they destroy, deriving the word, not from רעה raah, to feed, but from רע ra, to rend, to destroy. The Septuagint had read רעה roch, a shepherd; and therefore have translated ποιμνιον συν ποιμενι ἁρπασαντες, "violently carrying off both the flock and the shepherd."

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 24:1-12

Job discourses further about the prosperity of the wicked. That many live at ease who are ungodly and profane, he had showed, ch. xxi. Here he shows that many who live in open defiance of all the laws of justice, succeed in wicked practices; and we do not see them reckoned with in this world. He notices those that do wrong under pretence of law and authority; and robbers, those that do wrong by force. He says, "God…

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Job 24:2 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

גְּבֻל֥וֹתge.vu.LotboundariesH1367
יַשִּׂ֑יגוּya.Si.gupeople reachH5381
עֵ֥דֶר'E.derflock[s]H5739
גָּ֝זְל֗וּga.ze.Luthey seizeH1497
וַיִּרְעֽוּ\׃vai.yir.'Uand they have pastured [them]H7462

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Cross references for Job 24:2

  • 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 23:10

    Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:

  • Proverbs 22:28

    Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.

  • Hosea 5:10

    The princes of Judah were like them that remove the bound: therefore I will pour out my wrath upon them like water.

  • Job 5:5

    Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.

  • Job 1:17

    While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The Chaldeans made out three bands, and fell upon the camels, and have carried them away, yea, and slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.

  • Job 1:15

    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.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
landmarks.
De 19:14; 27:17; Pr 22:28; 23:10; Ho 5:10
violently.
1:15,17; 5:5
feed thereof. or, feed them.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Job 24:1

    Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?

  • Job 24:2

    Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof.

  • Job 24:3

    They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.

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Job 24:2 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Traspasan los términos, roban los ganados, y apaciéntanlos.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Ils reculent les bornes, ils pillent le troupeau et le paissent;
German
Elberfelder 1871		Sie verrücken die Grenzen, sie rauben die Herde und weiden sie.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Alii terminos transtulerunt; diripuerunt greges, et paverunt eos.