Job 24:2 Meaning and Explanation
“Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof.”
King James Version (KJV)
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Read Full Chapter →Job describes the wicked who move boundary stones to steal land and seize flocks by force, pasturing the stolen animals as their own.
What Does Job 24:2 Mean?
Job begins his list of hidden crimes. Boundary stones marked the inheritance God apportioned to each family; to move them was to rob a neighbor of his very livelihood and heritage. The same hand that shifts the stone drives off the flocks and feeds them shamelessly in open pasture.
The Law called such acts cursed, for they prey on the defenseless under cover of legality. Job is pressing a real grief: these things happen, and the heavens do not visibly thunder against them. Yet Scripture assures us the Lord is the keeper of every boundary and the defender of the dispossessed. The Good Shepherd gathers the very flocks the violent scatter, and what is stolen on earth is not forgotten in heaven.
Job 24:2 in the Original Language
gevul (גְּבוּל), 'landmark' -- a boundary or border marking a family's God-given inheritance.
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What does Job 24:2 mean?
Job describes the wicked who move boundary stones to steal land and seize flocks by force, pasturing the stolen animals as their own.