and the Sabeans fell on them and carried them off and killed the servants with the edge of the sword; I alone have escaped to tell you.”
Job 24:2 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 The wicked remove landmarks; they seize flocks and pasture them. More versionsKing 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 on them and carried them off and killed the servants with the edge of the sword; I alone have escaped to tell you.”
While he was still speaking, another came and said, “The Chaldeans formed three columns, made a raid on the camels and carried them off, and killed the servants with the edge of the sword; I alone have escaped to tell you.”
For they have crushed and abandoned the poor; they have seized a house that they did not build.
“If my land has cried out against me and its furrows have wept together,
The hungry eat their harvest, and they take it even out of the thorns, and the thirsty pant after their wealth.
The princes of Judah have become like those who remove the landmark; on them I will pour out my wrath like water.
“You must not move your neighbor’s boundary marker, set up by former generations, on the property that will be allotted to you in the land that the Lord your God is giving you to possess.
“ ‘Cursed be anyone who moves a neighbor’s boundary marker.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen!’