Parallel Verses
New Heart English Bible
There are people who remove the landmarks. They violently take away flocks, and feed them.
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.
The Emphasized Bible
Boundaries, men move back, flocks, they seize and consume;
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 "Why aren't times made known by Shaddai? Why do not those who know him see his days? 2 There are people who remove the landmarks. They violently take away flocks, and feed them. 3 They drive away the donkey of the fatherless, and they take the widow's ox for a pledge.
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Cross References
Deuteronomy 19:14
You shall not remove your neighbor's landmark, which they of old time have set, in your inheritance which you shall inherit, in the land that the LORD your God gives you to possess it.
Deuteronomy 27:17
'Cursed is he who removes his neighbor's landmark.' All the people shall say, 'Amen.'
Proverbs 23:10
Do not move the ancient boundary stone. Do not encroach on the fields of the fatherless:
Job 1:15
and the Sabeans attacked, and took them away. Yes, they have killed the servants with the edge of the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you."
Job 1:17
While he was still speaking, there came also another, and said, "The Chaldeans made three bands, and swept down on the camels, and have taken them away, yes, and killed the servants with the edge of the sword; and I alone have escaped to tell you."
Job 5:5
whose harvest the hungry eats up, and take it even out of the thorns. The snare gapes for their substance.
Proverbs 22:28
Do not move the ancient boundary stone, which your fathers have set up.
Hosea 5:10
The princes of Judah are like those who remove a landmark. I will pour out my wrath on them like water.