Job 24:2

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People remove landmarks; they seize flocks and pasture them.

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  • Deut 19:14 : 14 Do not move your neighbor's boundary marker, established by the ancestors, in the inheritance you will receive in the land the LORD your God is giving you to possess.
  • Deut 27:17 : 17 Cursed is anyone who moves his neighbor's boundary marker. Then all the people shall say, 'Amen.'
  • Prov 23:10 : 10 Do not move an ancient boundary marker, nor enter the fields of the fatherless.
  • Prov 22:28 : 28 Do not remove the ancient boundary stone set up by your ancestors.
  • Hos 5:10 : 10 The leaders of Judah are like those who move boundary stones; I will pour out my wrath on them like water.
  • Job 1:15 : 15 when the Sabeans attacked and carried them off. They put the servants to the sword, and I am the only one who escaped to tell you.'
  • Job 1:17 : 17 While he was still speaking, another messenger came and said, 'The Chaldeans formed three raiding parties, swept down on the camels, and carried them off. They put the servants to the sword, and I am the only one who escaped to tell you.'
  • Job 5:5 : 5 The hungry devour his harvest, even taking it from among thorns; the thirsty swallow his wealth.

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  • Job 24:3-6
    4 verses
    84%

    3 They drive away the orphan’s donkey and take the widow’s ox as security.

    4 They turn the needy off the path, and the poor of the land are forced to hide together.

    5 Like wild donkeys in the wilderness, they go out for their work diligently seeking prey; the steppe provides food for their children.

    6 In the fields, they reap the fodder; they glean the vineyard of the wicked.

  • Job 24:9-11
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    9 They snatch the orphan from the breast and take the poor as a pledge.

    10 They go about naked without clothing, and they carry sheaves while hungry.

    11 They press oil between the rows, they tread the wine presses, yet they go thirsty.

  • 2 They covet fields and seize them; they take houses and rob them. They oppress a man and his house, a person and their inheritance.

  • 10 Do not move an ancient boundary marker, nor enter the fields of the fatherless.

  • 2 They deprive the poor of justice and rob the rights of the needy among my people, making widows their spoil and leaving orphans to be plundered.

  • 28 Do not remove the ancient boundary stone set up by your ancestors.

  • 4 On that day, they will take up a taunt against you and wail with bitter lament, saying: 'We are utterly ruined; my people's inheritance is divided. How it has been taken away from me! He removes our fields and gives them to traitors.'

  • 24 He removes the understanding of the leaders of the earth's people and makes them wander in a pathless wasteland.

  • 5 The hungry devour his harvest, even taking it from among thorns; the thirsty swallow his wealth.

  • 6 They kill the widow and the foreigner; they murder the fatherless.

  • 5 Their buyers slaughter them without remorse, and those who sell them say, 'Blessed be the LORD, for I am rich.' Their own shepherds show no pity on them.

  • 4 Hear this, you who trample on the needy and seek to destroy the poor of the land,

  • 17 Then lambs will graze as in their own pasture, and strangers will eat in the ruins of the rich.

  • 12 You will come to seize spoil and carry off plunder, to turn your hand against resettled ruins and against a people gathered from the nations, people acquiring livestock and goods, who live at the center of the land.

  • Prov 4:16-17
    2 verses
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    16 For they cannot rest until they do evil; they are robbed of sleep until they make someone stumble.

    17 They eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.

  • 14 Do not move your neighbor's boundary marker, established by the ancestors, in the inheritance you will receive in the land the LORD your God is giving you to possess.

  • Jer 25:36-37
    2 verses
    71%

    36 Hear the cry of the shepherds, the wailing of the leaders of the flock, for the LORD is destroying their pasture.

    37 The peaceful pastures will be silent because of the LORD's fierce anger.

  • 23 For the LORD will plead their case and will rob of life those who rob them.

  • 31 Your ox will be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will not eat any of it. Your donkey will be taken forcibly from you and will not be returned. Your sheep will be given to your enemies, and no one will rescue them.

  • 19 Must My flock feed on what you have trampled and drink what you have muddied with your feet?

  • 10 Many shepherds have ruined my vineyard; they have trampled my portion underfoot. They have turned my pleasant field into a desolate wasteland.

  • 1 Why does the Almighty not reserve times of judgment, and why do those who know Him not see His days of justice?

  • 12 Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, and all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,

  • 23 who acquit the guilty for a bribe and deny justice to the righteous!

  • 7 For they have devoured Jacob and ruined his dwelling place.

  • 20 He silences the speech of the trustworthy and takes away the discernment of the elders.

  • 3 You push away the day of disaster and bring near a reign of violence.

  • 28 They took their flocks, herds, donkeys, and everything in the city and in the fields.

  • 3 You eat the fat, wear the wool, and slaughter the fattened animals, but you do not feed the flock.

  • 14 In the evening, sudden terror! Before morning, they are no more. This is the fate of those who plunder us and the lot of those who pillage us.

  • 19 Such are the ways of everyone who gains unjust profit; it takes away the life of its owners.

  • 19 For he has crushed and abandoned the poor; he has seized a house he did not build.

  • 5 They are driven out from among society, and people shout at them as if they were thieves.

  • 5 If thieves came to you, if robbers came by night—oh, how you would be ruined!—would they not steal only enough for themselves? If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave some gleanings?

  • 29 The people of the land practice extortion and commit robbery; they oppress the poor and needy and mistreat the foreigner, denying them justice.

  • 27 You would even cast lots over the fatherless and barter away your friend.

  • 3 Their hands are skilled at doing evil: the ruler demands gifts, the judge accepts bribes, and the powerful speak out their selfish desires. Together they weave a web of corrupt schemes.

  • 14 He will take the best of your fields, vineyards, and olive groves and give them to his officials.

  • 16 In the darkness, they break into houses, but by day, they shut themselves in; they do not know the light.

  • 17 Cursed is anyone who moves his neighbor's boundary marker. Then all the people shall say, 'Amen.'

  • 21 The shepherds are senseless and do not seek the Lord; therefore they do not prosper, and all their flock is scattered.

  • 28 They have grown fat and sleek. They excel in evil deeds; they do not defend the rights of the fatherless so they might prosper, nor do they uphold the cause of the needy.

  • 7 The violence of the wicked will sweep them away because they refuse to act justly.