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Job 24:2

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24:2Men3 move boundary stones;

they seize the flock and pasture them.4

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Footnotes

  1. 3 The line is short: “they move boundary stones.” So some commentators have supplied a subject, such as “wicked men.” The reason for its being wicked men is that to move the boundary stone was to encroach dishonestly on the lands of others (Deut 19:14; 27:17).
  2. 4 The reads “and their shepherd.” Many commentators accept this reading. But the says that they graze the flocks that they have stolen. The difficulty with the reading is that there is no suffix on the final verb—but that is not an insurmountable difference.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Some move landmarks;

they seize flocks and pasture them.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

There are those who move boundary stones;

they pasture flocks they have stolen.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

The wicked displace boundary markers.

They steal a flock and provide pasture for it.

NLTNew Living Translation

Evil people steal land by moving the boundary markers.

They steal livestock and put them in their own pastures.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

They remove border stones;

they seize flocks, and they pasture them.

KJV 1900King James Version

Some remove the landmarks;

They violently take away flocks, and feed thereof.