King James Version
What Does Job 24:2 Mean?
“Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof. feed: or, feed them”
Context
1
Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?
2
Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof. feed: or, feed them
3
They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge.
4
They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.
Commentary
Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers(2) **Some remove the landmarks.**—Now follows a description of the wrong-doings of various classes of men. The removal of landmarks was expressly provided against by the Mosaic Law (Deuteronomy 19:14; Deuteronomy 27:17).
**And feed thereof.**—Rather, probably, *feed them: i.e., *pasture them, the more easy to do when the landmarks are so removed.
Charles John Ellicott (1819–1905). Public Domain.
Historical Context
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Theological Significance
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