Job 24:2
Strong's Lexicon
Men move
יַשִּׂ֑יגוּ (yaś·śî·ḡū)
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 5381: 1) to reach, overtake, take hold upon 1a) (Hiphil) 1a1) to overtake 1a2) to reach, attain to, cause to reach 1a3) to be able to secure, reach, have enough

boundary stones;
גְּבֻל֥וֹת (gə·ḇu·lō·wṯ)
Noun - feminine plural
Strong's Hebrew 1367: 1) border, boundary

they pasture
וַיִּרְעֽוּ׃ (way·yir·‘ū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 7462: 1) to pasture, tend, graze, feed 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to tend, pasture 1a1a) to shepherd 1a1b) of ruler, teacher (fig) 1a1c) of people as flock (fig) 1a1d) shepherd, herdsman (subst) 1a2) to feed, graze 1a2a) of cows, sheep etc (literal) 1a2b) of idolater, Israel as flock (fig) 1b) (Hiphil) shepherd, shepherdess 2) to associate with, be a friend of (meaning probable) 2a) (Qal) to associate with 2b) (Hithpael) to be companions 3) (Piel) to be a special friend

stolen
גָּ֝זְל֗וּ (gā·zə·lū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 1497: 1) to tear away, seize, plunder, tear off, pull off, rob, take away by force 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to tear away, rob 1a2) to seize, plunder (with acc cognate) 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to be robbed 1b2) to be taken away

flocks.
עֵ֥דֶר (‘ê·ḏer)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5739: 1) flock, herd 1a) flock 1b) herds, flocks and herds

Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
Men move boundary stones; they pasture stolen flocks.

Young's Literal Translation
The borders they reach, A drove they have taken violently away, Yea, they do evil.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The wicked displace boundary markers. They steal a flock and  provide pasture for it.

New American Standard Bible
"Some remove the landmarks; They seize and devour flocks.

King James Bible
[Some] remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed [thereof].
Parallel Verses
New International Version
There are those who move boundary stones; they pasture flocks they have stolen.

New Living Translation
Evil people steal land by moving the boundary markers. They steal livestock and put them in their own pastures.

English Standard Version
Some move landmarks; they seize flocks and pasture them.

New American Standard Bible
"Some remove the landmarks; They seize and devour flocks.

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The wicked displace boundary markers. They steal a flock and provide pasture for it.

International Standard Version
They move boundary stones, steal flocks, and pasture them.

NET Bible
Men move boundary stones; they seize the flock and pasture them.

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

English Revised Version
There are that remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed them.

Young's Literal Translation
The borders they reach, A drove they have taken violently away, Yea, they do evil.
















Cross References
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.

Job 20:19
Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;

Job 31:38
If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain;

Proverbs 22:28
Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.

Proverbs 23:10
Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:

Job 1:1
There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.

Job 24:1
Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?

Job 23:17
Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he covered the darkness from my face.

Job 23:16
For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty troubleth me:

Job 24:3
They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge.
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