Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
Job 24:2
Some remove the landmarks, change the boundaries in their own favor; they violently take away flocks and feed thereof, becoming guilty of plunder and robbery, brazenly pasturing the stolen flocks.
Some remove the landmarks, change the boundaries in their own favor; they violently take away flocks and feed thereof, becoming guilty of plunder and robbery, brazenly pasturing the stolen flocks.
Verse Job 24:2. SOME _REMOVE THE LANDMARKS_] Stones or posts were originally set up to ascertain the bounds of particular estates: and this was necessary in open countries, before _hedges_ and _fence...
SOME REMOVE THE LAND-MARKS - Landmarks are pillars or stones set up to mark the boundaries of a farm. To remove them, by carrying them on to the land of another, was an act of dishonesty and robbery -...
CHAPTER S 23-24 JOB'S REPLY _ 1. O that I knew where I may find Him (Job 23:1)_ 2. Trusting yet doubting (Job 23:10) 3. Hath God failed? (Job 24:1) 4. Job's further testimony as to the wicked ...
JOB 24. This chapter has since Merx in 1871 been subjected to much criticism, the general trend of which has been to deny the whole or a considerable part of the chapter to Job. Peake, however, consid...
SOME: i.e. the lawless men, whose various crimes are detailed in the following verses. LANDMARKS. Compare Deuteronomy 19:14....
Job now proceeds to illustrate his complaint of the absence of righteousness in God's rule of the world. The instances are in the first place general....
_Some remove_ Or, THERE ARE WHO REMOVE. In the absence of hedgerows or walls, the landmark defined the boundary of a man's field or estate. Its removal was equivalent to violent appropriation of the p...
AND FEED THEREOF— _And him that feedeth them._ So Heath, after the LXX....
TEXT 24:1-12 24 WHY ARE TIMES NOT LAID UP BY THE ALMIGHTY? And why do not they that know him see his days? 2 There are that remove the landmarks; They violently take away flocks, and feed them. 3...
_SOME REMOVE THE LANDMARKS; THEY VIOLENTLY TAKE AWAY FLOCKS, AND FEED THEREOF._ Instances of the wicked doing the worst deeds with seeming impunity. SOME - the wicked. LANDMARKS - boundaries betwee...
JOB'S SEVENTH SPEECH (CONCLUDED) 1-25. Job continues to express his perplexity at the ways of Providence in the ordering of the world. The poor and the weak suffer; violence and wrong go unpunished....
REMOVE THE LANDMARKS] cp. Deuteronomy 19:14; Deuteronomy 27:17. FEED _thereof_] RV 'feed them': as if they were their own....
JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 24 JOB CONTINUES HIS SPEECH...
Some evil people steal things. But other evil people are just cruel. The widow in verse 3 owed money. The lender thought that it was right for him to take her cow. But that lender was cruel and evil....
SOME REMOVE THE LANDMARKS. — Now follows a description of the wrong-doings of various classes of men. The removal of landmarks was expressly provided against by the Mosaic Law (Deuteronomy 19:14; Deut...
גְּבֻלֹ֥ות יַשִּׂ֑יגוּ עֵ֥דֶר גָּ֝זְל֗וּ וַ יִּרְעֽוּ׃...
XX. WHERE IS ELOAH? Job 23:1; Job 24:1 Job SPEAKS THE obscure couplet with which Job begins appears to involve some reference to his whole condition alike of body and mind. "Again today, my plain...
NOT HERE, BUT HEREAFTER Job 24:1 Job laments that the times of punishment are not so explained by God, that those who know Him may see and understand His reasons. He then turns to describe the life o...
Passing from the personal aspect of his problem, Job considered it in its wider application. He asked the reason of God's noninterference, and then proceeded to describe the evidences of it. Men still...
_Marks. This was a heinous offence, (Deuteronomy xix. 14.) which Numa punished with death. (Halyc. i.) (Calmet) --- And fed. Septuagint, "and those who fed them."_...
(2) Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof. (3) They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge. (4) They turn the needy out of t...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31. As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks. They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure and...
[SOME] REMOVE THE LANDMARKS,.... Anciently set to distinguish one man's land from another, to secure property, and preserve from encroachments; but some were so wicked as either secretly in the night...
Job 24:2 [Some] remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed [thereof]. Ver. 2. _Some remove the landmarks_] Here he instanceth in all sorts of wicked persons, with their _seculi l...
_Some_, &c. In proof that wicked persons prosper, he instances in two sorts of unrighteous people, whom all the world saw thriving in their iniquity: 1st, Tyrants, and those that did wrong under prete...
DOES GOD FAIL TO GOVERN PROPERLY? (vv.1-12) "Why are not times treasured up with the Almighty? Why do not they who know Him see His days?" (v.1 - JND trans.) Job wonders why God (who is Almighty) do...
FEED THEREOF: Or, feed them...
Job now begins to mention the evil that was happening in his world and was not being judged. Some remove ancient landmarks, that is boundary stones that marked off property lines. Others were stealing...
1-12 Job discourses further about the prosperity of the wicked. That many live at ease who are ungodly and profane, he had showed, ch. xxi. Here he shows that many who live in open defiance of all th...
SOME REMOVE THE LANDMARKS; or, _they_ (i.e. the wicked, of whom he here treats) _touch_ (to wit, in an unlawful manner, and with evil design, as this word is oft used, as GENESIS 26:11,29 RUTH 2:9, so...
Job 24:2 remove H5381 (H8686) landmarks H1367 seize H1497 flocks H5739 violently H1497 (H8804) feed H7462 ...
Job 24:1. _Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?_ «Why do they live so long? Why do they appear to have such prosperity?» Job 24:2. Some remove...
CONTENTS: Job's answer continued. The prosperity of the wicked. CHARACTERS: God, Job, friends. CONCLUSION: Though wicked men seem sometimes to be under the special protection of divine providence, e...
Job 24:3. _They drive away the ass of the fatherless._ In Job's time there was no regular government or empire, to bring neighbouring tyrants to justice; proof sufficient that this book is of the high...
_Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty._ GREAT CRIMES NOT ALWAYS FOLLOWED BY GREAT PUNISHMENT IN THIS LIFE I. Great crimes have prevailed on the earth from the earliest times. Amongst t...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 24:1 Job wishes that God’s plans for the world and for Job would be more apparent. ⇐ ⇔...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 24:2 Job describes the injustices of the wicked (vv. Job 24:2) and the effects of the injustices on their victims (vv. Job 24:5
_CONTINUATION OF JOB’S REPLY TO ELIPHAZ_ Prosecutes his own view of the Divine government. Enlarges on the crimes of one part of men and the sufferings of another as the consequences of them, to shew...
EXPOSITION The general subject of this chapter is the prosperity of the wicked, whose proceedings and their results are traced out in detail (Job 24:2). A single note of perplexity (Job 24:1) forms a...
Now, why, seeing the times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days? Some [now you've accused me of these things, but there are some] that remove the landmarks; and vio...
Deuteronomy 19:14; Deuteronomy 27:17; Hosea 5:10; Job 1:15; Job 1:17;...