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Job 24:2
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Job Complains of Violence on the Earth

1 “Since atimes are not hidden from the Almighty,
Why do those who know Him see not His bdays? 
2 “Some remove alandmarks;
They seize flocks violently and feed on them; 
3 They drive away the donkey of the fatherless;
They atake the widow’s ox as a pledge. 
4 They push the needy off the road;
All the apoor of the land are forced to hide. 
5 Indeed, like wild donkeys in the desert,
They go out to their work, searching for food.
The wilderness yields food for them and for their children.
6 They gather their fodder in the field
And glean in the vineyard of the wicked.
7 They aspend the night naked, without clothing,
And have no covering in the cold. 
8 They are wet with the showers of the mountains,
And ahuddle around the rock for want of shelter. 
9 “Some snatch the fatherless from the breast,
And take a pledge from the poor.
10 They cause the poor to go naked, without aclothing;
And they take away the sheaves from the hungry. 
11 They press out oil within their walls,
And tread winepresses, yet suffer thirst.
12 The dying groan in the city,
And the souls of the wounded cry out;
Yet God does not charge them with wrong.
13 “There are those who rebel against the light;
They do not know its ways
Nor abide in its paths.
14 aThe murderer rises with the light;
He kills the poor and needy;
And in the night he is like a thief. 
15 aThe eye of the adulterer waits for the twilight,
bSaying, ‘No eye will see me’;
And he1 disguises his face. 
16 In the dark they break into houses
Which they marked for themselves in the daytime;
aThey do not know the light. 
17 For the morning is the same to them as the shadow of death;
If someone recognizes them,
They are in the terrors of the shadow of death.
18 “They should be swift on the face of the waters,
Their portion should be cursed in the earth,
So that no one would turn into the way of their vineyards.
19 As drought and heat1 consume the snow waters,
So1 the grave consumes those who have sinned. 
20 The womb should forget him,
The worm should feed sweetly on him;
aHe should be remembered no more,
And wickedness should be broken like a tree. 
21 For he1 preys on the barren who do not bear,
And does no good for the widow. 
22 “But God draws the mighty away with His power;
He rises up, but no man is sure of life.
23 He gives them security, and they rely on it;
Yet aHis eyes are on their ways. 
24 They are1 exalted for a little while,
Then they are gone.
They are brought low;
They are taken out of the way like all others;
They dry out like the heads of grain. 
25 “Now if it is not so, who will prove me a liar,
And make my speech worth nothing?”
Verse Comparison: Job 24:2

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

Amplified® Bible
Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks and pasture them [appropriating land and flocks openly].

Contemporary English Version
Sinners remove boundary markers and take care of sheep they have stolen.

Darby English Version
They remove the landmarks; they violently take away the flocks and pasture them;

Good News Bible
People move property lines to get more land; they steal sheep and put them with their own flocks.

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

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

New International Version
Men move boundary stones;
they pasture flocks they have stolen.

New King James Version
“Some remove landmarks;
They seize flocks violently and feed on them;

N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
"Some remove the landmarks; They seize and devour flocks.

Revised Standard Version
Men remove landmarks; they seize flocks and pasture them.

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


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