KJV King James Version
[Some] remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed [thereof].
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Job 24:2
[Some] remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed [thereof].
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Men move boundary stones; they pasture stolen flocks.
WEB World English Bible
There are people who remove the landmarks. They violently take away flocks, and feed them.
ASV American Standard Version
There are that remove the landmarks; They violently take away flocks, and feed them.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
The borders they reach, A drove they have taken violently away, Yea, they do evil.
Surrounding context — Job 24
1 Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?
2 [Some] remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed [thereof].
3 They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.
4 They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.
5 Behold, [as] wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness [yieldeth] food for them [and] for [their] children.
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Proverbs 23:10Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:Deuteronomy 27:17Cursed [be] he that removeth his neighbour’s landmark. And all the people shall say, Amen.Deuteronomy 19:14Thou 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.Proverbs 22:28Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.Hosea 5:10The princes of Judah were like them that remove the bound: [therefore] I will pour out my wrath upon them like water.Job 1:15And 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 5:5Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.Job 1:17While 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.
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