and the Sabeans fell upon them, and took them away; yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and : I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
Job 24:2 - Revised Version 1885 There are that remove the landmarks; They violently take away flocks, and feed them. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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 away; yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and : I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The Chaldeans made three bands, and fell upon the camels, and have taken them away, yea, and slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and : I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
For he hath oppressed and forsaken the poor; He hath violently taken away an house, and he shall not build it up.
If my land cry out against me, And the furrows thereof weep together;
Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, And taketh it even out of the thorns, And the snare gapeth for their substance
Remove not the ancient landmark; And enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
The princes of Judah are like them that remove the landmark: I will pour out my wrath upon them like water.
Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's landmark, which they of old time have set, in thine inheritance which thou shalt inherit, in the land that the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it.
Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour's landmark. And all the people shall say, Amen.