Job 24:2

What does Job 24:2 mean?

A plain-English look at Job 24:2 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

The landmarks are changed by evil men, they violently take away flocks, together with their keepers.

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

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

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

Some have removed landmarks, have taken away flocks by force, and fed them.

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

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

Context

v.1Why are times not laid up by the Almighty? And why do not they that know him see his days?

v.2This passage

v.3They drive away the ass of the fatherless; They take the widow’s ox for a pledge.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Deuteronomy 27:17

    Cursed be he that removeth his neighbor’s landmark. And all the people shall say, Amen.

  • Proverbs 23:10

    Remove not the ancient landmark; And enter not into the fields of the fatherless:

  • Job 1:17

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

  • Hosea 5:10

    The princes of Judah are like them that remove the landmark: 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 snare gapeth for their substance.

  • Deuteronomy 19:14

    Thou shalt not remove thy neighbor’s landmark, which they of old time have set, in thine inheritance which thou shalt inherit, in the land that Jehovah thy God giveth thee to possess it.

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