and the Sabeans fell upon them and took them, and slew the servants with the edge of the sword; and I alone have escaped to tell you.”
Job 24:2 - Revised Standard Version CI Men remove landmarks; they seize flocks and pasture them. Flere versionerKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Some remove the landmarks; They violently take away flocks, and feed thereof. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks and pasture them [appropriating land and flocks openly]. American Standard Version (1901) There are that remove the landmarks; They violently take away flocks, and feed them. Common English Bible People move boundary stones, herd flocks they’ve stolen, Catholic Public Domain Version Some have crossed the boundaries, plundered the flocks, and given them pasture. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Some have removed landmarks, have taken away flocks by force, and fed them. |
and the Sabeans fell upon them and took them, and slew the servants with the edge of the sword; and I alone have escaped to tell you.”
While he was yet speaking, there came another, and said, “The Chaldeans formed three companies, and made a raid upon the camels and took them, and slew the servants with the edge of the sword; and I alone have escaped to tell you.”
For he has crushed and abandoned the poor, he has seized a house which he did not build.
His harvest the hungry eat, and he takes it even out of thorns; and the thirsty pant after his wealth.
The princes of Judah have become like those who remove the landmark; upon them I will pour out my wrath like water.
“In the inheritance which you will hold in the land that the Lord your God gives you to possess, you shall not remove your neighbor's landmark, which the men of old have set.
“ ‘Cursed be he who removes his neighbor's landmark.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’