Parallel Verses
The Emphasized Bible
Boundaries, men move back, flocks, they seize and consume;
New American Standard Bible
They seize and
King James Version
Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof.
Holman Bible
They steal a flock and provide pasture for it.
International Standard Version
They move boundary stones, steal flocks, and pasture them.
A Conservative Version
There are [men] who remove the landmarks. They take away flocks violently, and feed them.
American Standard Version
There are that remove the landmarks; They violently take away flocks, and feed them.
Amplified
“Some remove the landmarks;
They [violently] seize and pasture flocks [appropriating land and flocks openly].
Bible in Basic English
The landmarks are changed by evil men, they violently take away flocks, together with their keepers.
Darby Translation
They remove the landmarks; they violently take away the flocks and pasture them;
Julia Smith Translation
They will remove the bound; they will strip off the flock, and they will feed.
King James 2000
Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed on them.
Lexham Expanded Bible
They remove border [stones]; they seize flocks, and they pasture [them].
Modern King James verseion
They remove the landmarks; they seize flocks and feed them.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For some men there be, that remove other men's landmarks; that rob them of their cattle, and keep the same for their own;
NET Bible
Men move boundary stones; they seize the flock and pasture them.
New Heart English Bible
There are people who remove the landmarks. They violently take away flocks, and feed them.
Webster
Some remove the landmarks: they violently take away flocks, and their feed.
World English Bible
There are people who remove the landmarks. They violently take away flocks, and feed them.
Youngs Literal Translation
The borders they reach, A drove they have taken violently away, Yea, they do evil.
Themes
Corruption » In politics in the church » The prevalence of violence
The Nation » Appointed by God corrupt » The prevalence of violence
Wicked people » Temporal punishment of
The world » Conformity to forbidden creation of » Filled with violence
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 24:2
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Eighth Speech, Continued
1 Wherefore, since from the Almighty times are not hid, have, his knowing ones, no vision of his days? 2 Boundaries, men move back, flocks, they seize and consume; 3 The ass of the fatherless, they drive off, they take in pledge the ox of the widow;
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Cross References
Deuteronomy 19:14
Thou shall not move back the boundary of thy neighbour, by which they set bounds at first, - in thine inheritance which thou shall receive in the land which Yahweh thy God is giving thee to possess.
Deuteronomy 27:17
Cured, be he that moveth back the boundary of his neighbour. And all the people shall say - Amen.
Proverbs 23:10
Do not move back the ancient boundary, and, into the fields of the fatherless, do not enter;
Job 1:15
when the Sabeans swooped down, and took them, and, the young men, smote they with the edge of the sword, - and escaped am, only I alone, too tell thee.
Job 1:17
Yet was this one speaking, when, another, came in and said, The Chaldeans, appointed three chiefs, and spread out against the camels, and took them, and, the young men, smote they with the edge of the sword; and escaped am, only I alone, to tell thee.
Job 5:5
Whose harvest, the hungry, eateth up, and, even out of thorn hedges, he taketh it, and the snare gapeth for their substance.
Proverbs 22:28
Do not move back the ancient boundary, which thy father's made.
Hosea 5:10
The rulers of Judah have become as they who remove a land-mark. Upon them, will I pour out, like water, my wrath.