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Job 24:2–4

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24:2Men3 move boundary stones;

they seize the flock and pasture them.4

24:3They drive away the orphan’s donkey;

they take the widow’s ox as a pledge.

24:4They turn the needy from the pathway,

and the poor of the land hide themselves together.5

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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.
  3. 5 Because of the violence and oppression of the wicked, the poor and needy, the widows and orphans, all are deprived of their rights and forced out of the ways and into hiding just to survive.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Some move landmarks;

they seize flocks and pasture them.

They drive away the donkey of the fatherless;

they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.

They thrust the poor off the road;

the poor of the earth all hide themselves.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

There are those who move boundary stones;

they pasture flocks they have stolen.

They drive away the orphan’s donkey

and take the widow’s ox in pledge.

They thrust the needy from the path

and force all the poor of the land into hiding.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

The wicked displace boundary markers.

They steal a flock and provide pasture for it.

They drive away the donkeys owned by the fatherless

and take the widow’s ox as collateral.

They push the needy off the road;

the poor of the land are forced into hiding.

NLTNew Living Translation

Evil people steal land by moving the boundary markers.

They steal livestock and put them in their own pastures.

They take the orphan’s donkey

and demand the widow’s ox as security for a loan.

The poor are pushed off the path;

the needy must hide together for safety.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

They remove border stones;

they seize flocks, and they pasture them.

They drive away the donkey of orphans;

they take the widow’s ox as a pledge.

They thrust the poor off the road;

the needy of the earth hide themselves together.

KJV 1900King James Version

Some remove the landmarks;

They violently take away flocks, and feed thereof.

They drive away the ass of the fatherless,

They take the widow’s ox for a pledge.

They turn the needy out of the way:

The poor of the earth hide themselves together.