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. Berean Standard Bible Men move boundary stones; they pasture stolen flocks. Berean Literal Bible They move boundary markers; they seize a flock and pasture it. King James Bible Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof. New King James Version “Some remove landmarks; They seize flocks violently and feed on them; New American Standard Bible “People remove landmarks; They seize and devour flocks. NASB 1995 “Some remove the landmarks; They seize and devour flocks. NASB 1977 “Some remove the landmarks; They seize and devour flocks. Legacy Standard Bible Some move the boundaries; They seize and devour flocks. Amplified Bible “Some remove the landmarks; They [violently] seize and pasture flocks [appropriating land and flocks openly]. Berean Annotated Bible Men move boundary stones; they pasture stolen flocks. Christian Standard Bible The wicked displace boundary markers. They steal a flock and provide pasture for it. Holman Christian Standard Bible The wicked displace boundary markers. They steal a flock and provide pasture for it. American Standard Version There are that remove the landmarks; They violently take away flocks, and feed them. Contemporary English Version Sinners remove boundary markers and take care of sheep they have stolen. English Revised Version There are that remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed them. GOD'S WORD® Translation "[People] move boundary markers. They steal flocks and tend them as shepherds. Good News Translation People move property lines to get more land; they steal sheep and put them with their own flocks. 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. New Heart English Bible There are people who remove the landmarks. They violently take away flocks, and feed them. Webster's Bible Translation Some remove the landmarks: they violently take away flocks, and their feed. Majority Text Translations Majority Standard BibleMen move boundary stones; they pasture stolen flocks. World English Bible There are people who remove the landmarks. They violently take away flocks, and feed them. Literal Translations Literal Standard VersionThey reach the borders, "" They have taken a drove away violently, "" Indeed, they do evil. Berean Literal Bible They move boundary markers; they seize a flock and pasture it. Young's Literal Translation The borders they reach, A drove they have taken violently away, Yea, they do evil. Smith's Literal Translation They will remove the bound; they will strip off the flock, and they will feed. Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleSome have removed landmarks, have taken away flocks by force, and fed them. Catholic Public Domain Version Some have crossed the boundaries, plundered the flocks, and given them pasture. New American Bible People remove landmarks; they steal herds and pasture them. New Revised Standard Version The wicked remove landmarks; they seize flocks and pasture them. Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleThe wicked remove the landmarks; they violently take away a flock. Peshitta Holy Bible Translated And the border they have removed and the flock they have taken OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917There are that remove the landmarks; They violently take away flocks, and feed them. Brenton Septuagint Translation while the ungodly have passed over the bound, carrying off the flock with the shepherd? Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Job: Judgment for the Wicked1“Why does the Almighty not reserve times for judgment? Why may those who know Him never see His days? 2Men move boundary stones; they pasture stolen flocks. 3They drive away the donkey of the fatherless and take the widow’s ox in pledge.… Cross References Men move boundary stones; Deuteronomy 19:14 You must not move your neighbor’s boundary marker, which was set up by your ancestors to mark the inheritance you shall receive in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess. Proverbs 22:28 Do not move an ancient boundary stone which your fathers have placed. Deuteronomy 27:17 ‘Cursed is he who moves his neighbor’s boundary stone.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’ they pasture stolen flocks. Exodus 22:1 “If a man steals an ox or a sheep and slaughters or sells it, he must repay five oxen for an ox and four sheep for a sheep. Genesis 31:39 I did not bring you anything torn by wild beasts; I bore the loss myself. And you demanded payment from me for what was stolen by day or night. 2 Samuel 12:4 Now a traveler came to the rich man, who refrained from taking one of his own sheep or cattle to prepare for the traveler who had come to him. Instead, he took the poor man’s lamb and prepared it for his guest.” Hosea 5:10 The princes of Judah are like those who move boundary stones; I will pour out My fury upon them like water. Micah 2:1-2 Woe to those who devise iniquity and plot evil on their beds! At morning’s light they accomplish it because the power is in their hands. / They covet fields and seize them; they take away houses. They deprive a man of his home, a fellow man of his inheritance. Isaiah 5:8 Woe to you who add house to house and join field to field until no place is left and you live alone in the land. Proverbs 23:10-11 Do not move an ancient boundary stone or encroach on the fields of the fatherless, / for their Redeemer is strong; He will take up their case against you. Jeremiah 22:13 “Woe to him who builds his palace by unrighteousness, and his upper rooms without justice, who makes his countrymen serve without pay, and fails to pay their wages, Amos 8:4-6 Hear this, you who trample the needy, who do away with the poor of the land, / asking, “When will the New Moon be over, that we may sell grain? When will the Sabbath end, that we may market wheat? Let us reduce the ephah and increase the shekel; let us cheat with dishonest scales. / Let us buy the poor with silver and the needy for a pair of sandals, selling even the chaff with the wheat!” Isaiah 10:1-2 Woe to those who enact unjust statutes and issue oppressive decrees, / to deprive the poor of fair treatment and withhold justice from the oppressed of My people, to make widows their prey and orphans their plunder. Matthew 23:14 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven in men’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let in those who wish to enter. James 5:4 Look, the wages you withheld from the workmen who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts. Luke 20:47 They defraud widows of their houses, and for a show make lengthy prayers. These men will receive greater condemnation.” Treasury of Scripture Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof. landmarks 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. Proverbs 22:28 Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set. violently Job 1:15,17 And 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 5:5 Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance. feed thereof. Jump to Previous Borders Boundary Changed Devour Drove Evil Feed Flocks Keepers Move Pasture Reach Remove Seize Stolen Stones Thereof Together ViolentlyJump to Next Borders Boundary Changed Devour Drove Evil Feed Flocks Keepers Move Pasture Reach Remove Seize Stolen Stones Thereof Together ViolentlyJob 24 1. Wickedness often goes unpunished17. There is a secret judgment for the wicked |
