Job 24

Job · Chapter 24

Job 24:2

1Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?2Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof.3They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.4They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.5Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children.6They reap every one his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage of the wicked.7They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.8They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.9They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.10They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;11Which make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.12Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.13They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.14The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.15The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face.16In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.17For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death: if one know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.18He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.19Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so doth the grave those which have sinned.20The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken as a tree.21He evil entreateth the barren that beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow.22He draweth also the mighty with his power: he riseth up, and no man is sure of life.23Though it be given him to be in safety, whereon he resteth; yet his eyes are upon their ways.24They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all other, and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.25And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?

King James Version (1769)

Other translations

VerseKJVBSBASV
2Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof.Men move boundary stones; they pasture stolen flocks.There are that remove the landmarks; They violently take away flocks, and feed them.

In context

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Original Hebrew words

EnglishHebrewSay itStrong'sMeaning
boundariesגְּבֻל֥וֹתge-vu-LOTH1367
border

גְּבוּלָה (ge.vu.lah) border, boundary

people reachיַשִּׂ֑יגוּya-SI-guH5381
to overtake

נָשַׂג (na.sag) 1) to reach, overtake, take hold upon 1a) (Hiphil) 1a1) to overtake 1a2) to reach, attain to, cause to reach 1a3) to be able to secure, reach, have enough

flock[s]עֵ֥דֶר'E-derH5739
flock

עֵ֫דֶר (e.der) 1) flock, herd 1a) flock 1b) herds, flocks and herds

they seizeגָּ֝זְל֗וּga-ze-LUH1497
to plunder

גָּזַל (ga.zal) 1) to tear away, seize, plunder, tear off, pull off, rob, take away by force 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to tear away, rob 1a2) to seize, plunder (with acc cognate) 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to be robbed 1b2) to be taken away

and they have pastured [them]וַיִּרְעֽוּ׃vai-yir-'UH7462B
to pasture

רָעָה (ra.ah) 1) to pasture, tend, graze, feed 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to tend, pasture 1a1a) to shepherd 1a1b) of ruler, teacher (fig) 1a1c) of people as flock (fig) 1a1d) shepherd, herdsman (subst) 1a2) to feed, graze 1a2a) of cows, sheep etc (literal) 1a2b) of idolater, Israel as flock (fig) 1b) (Hiphil) shepherd, shepherdess Also means: ro.i (רֹעִי "to shepherd" H7473)

Words and meanings from STEPBible data (Tyndale House, Cambridge, CC BY 4.0). The capitalized syllable is the stressed one.