Parallel Verses

Amplified


“Some remove the landmarks;
They [violently] seize and pasture flocks [appropriating land and flocks openly].

New American Standard Bible

Some remove the landmarks;
They seize and devour flocks.

King James Version

Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof.

Holman Bible

The wicked displace boundary markers.
They steal a flock and provide pasture for it.

International Standard Version

They move boundary stones, steal flocks, and pasture them.

A Conservative Version

There are [men] who remove the landmarks. They take away flocks violently, and feed them.

American Standard Version

There are that remove the landmarks; They violently take away flocks, and feed them.

Bible in Basic English

The landmarks are changed by evil men, they violently take away flocks, together with their keepers.

Darby Translation

They remove the landmarks; they violently take away the flocks and pasture them;

Julia Smith Translation

They will remove the bound; they will strip off the flock, and they will feed.

King James 2000

Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed on them.

Lexham Expanded Bible

They remove border [stones]; they seize flocks, and they pasture [them].

Modern King James verseion

They remove the landmarks; they seize flocks and feed them.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

For some men there be, that remove other men's landmarks; that rob them of their cattle, and keep the same for their own;

NET Bible

Men move boundary stones; they seize the flock and pasture them.

New Heart English Bible

There are people who remove the landmarks. They violently take away flocks, and feed them.

The Emphasized Bible

Boundaries, men move back, flocks, they seize and consume;

Webster

Some remove the landmarks: they violently take away flocks, and their feed.

World English Bible

There are people who remove the landmarks. They violently take away flocks, and feed them.

Youngs Literal Translation

The borders they reach, A drove they have taken violently away, Yea, they do evil.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
נשׂג 
Nasag 
Usage: 50

the landmarks
גּבלה גּבוּלה 
G@buwlah 
Usage: 10

עדר 
`eder 
Usage: 39

and feed
רעה 
Ra`ah 
Usage: 171

References

Easton

Hastings

Morish

Smith

Watsons

Context Readings

Job's Eighth Speech, Continued

1 “Why does the Almighty not set seasons for judgment?
Why do those who know Him not see His days [for punishment of the wicked]?
2 
“Some remove the landmarks;
They [violently] seize and pasture flocks [appropriating land and flocks openly].
3
“They drive away the donkeys of the orphans;
They take the widow’s ox for a pledge.


Cross References

Deuteronomy 19:14

“You shall not move your neighbor’s boundary mark, which the forefathers [who first divided the territory] have set, in the land which you will inherit in the land which the Lord your God is giving you to possess.

Deuteronomy 27:17

‘Cursed is he who moves his neighbor’s boundary mark.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

Proverbs 23:10


Do not move the ancient landmark [at the boundary of the property]
And do not go into the fields of the fatherless [to take what is theirs],

Job 1:15

and the Sabeans attacked and swooped down on them and took away the animals. They also killed the servants with the edge of the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you.”

Job 1:17

While he was still speaking, another [messenger] also came and said, “The Chaldeans formed three bands and made a raid on the camels and have taken them away and have killed the servants with the edge of the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you.”

Job 5:5


“The hungry devour his harvest
And take it even [when it grows] among the thorns;
The trap opens for [his] wealth.

Proverbs 22:28


Do not move the ancient landmark [at the boundary of the property]
Which your fathers have set.

Hosea 5:10


The princes of Judah are like those who move a boundary marker;
I will pour out My wrath on them like [an unrestrained flood of] water.

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