Job 24:2

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 19:14 : 14 You shall not remove your neighbor's landmark, which the men of old have set in your inheritance, which you shall inherit in the land that the LORD your God gives you to possess.
  • Deut 27:17 : 17 Cursed be he who removes his neighbor's landmark. And all the people shall say, Amen.
  • Prov 23:10 : 10 Do not remove the ancient landmark, and do not enter the fields of the fatherless:
  • Prov 22:28 : 28 Do not remove the ancient landmark which your fathers have set.
  • Hos 5:10 : 10 The princes of Judah were like those who remove a boundary: therefore I will pour out my wrath upon them like water.
  • Job 1:15 : 15 when the Sabeans raided them and took them away; and they have killed the servants with the edge of the sword; and I alone have escaped to tell you."
  • Job 1:17 : 17 While he was still speaking, another also came and said, "The Chaldeans formed three bands, raided the camels, and carried them away, yes, and killed the servants with the edge of the sword; and I alone have escaped to tell you."
  • Job 5:5 : 5 Whose harvest the hungry devour, and take it even out of the thorns, and the thief swallows up their substance.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 24:3-6
    4 verses
    84%

    3They drive away the donkey 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 donkeys in the desert, they go forth to their work, rising early for prey; the wilderness yields food for them and for their children.

    6They reap each one his grain in the field and gather the vintage of the wicked.

  • Job 24:9-11
    3 verses
    79%

    9They snatch the fatherless from the breast and take a pledge from the poor.

    10They make him go naked without clothing and take away the sheaf from the hungry;

    11They make oil within their walls and tread their winepresses, and still they thirst.

  • Mic 2:2
    79%

    2They covet fields and take them by violence, and houses, and take them away; so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.

  • Prov 23:10
    75%

    10Do not remove the ancient landmark, and do not enter the fields of the fatherless:

  • Isa 10:2
    74%

    2To turn aside the needy from justice and to take away the rights from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!

  • Prov 22:28
    73%

    28Do not remove the ancient landmark which your fathers have set.

  • Mic 2:4
    73%

    4In that day shall one take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, and say, We are utterly spoiled: he has changed the portion of my people; how has he removed it from me! Turning away, he has divided our fields.

  • Job 12:24
    72%

    24He takes away the heart of the chiefs of the people of the earth, and causes them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.

  • Job 5:5
    72%

    5Whose harvest the hungry devour, and take it even out of the thorns, and the thief swallows up their substance.

  • Ps 94:6
    72%

    6They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.

  • Zech 11:5
    72%

    5Whose owners slay them and hold themselves not guilty. And those who sell them say, 'Blessed be the LORD, for I am rich.' And their own shepherds do not pity them.

  • Amos 8:4
    72%

    4Hear this, you who swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land fail,

  • Isa 5:17
    72%

    17Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.

  • Ezek 38:12
    71%

    12To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn your hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, who have acquired cattle and goods, who dwell in the midst of the land.

  • Prov 4:16-17
    2 verses
    71%

    16For they do not sleep unless they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.

    17For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.

  • Deut 19:14
    71%

    14You shall not remove your neighbor's landmark, which the men of old have set in your inheritance, which you shall inherit in the land that the LORD your God gives you to possess.

  • Jer 25:36-37
    2 verses
    71%

    36A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and a wailing of the leaders of the flock, shall be heard: for the LORD has plundered their pasture.

    37And the peaceful habitations are cut down because of the fierce anger of the LORD.

  • Prov 22:23
    71%

    23For the LORD will plead their cause and plunder the soul of those who plunder them.

  • Deut 28:31
    71%

    31Your ox shall be slain before your eyes, and you shall not eat thereof: your donkey shall be violently taken away from before your face, and shall not be restored to you: your sheep shall be given unto your enemies, and you shall have none to rescue them.

  • Ezek 34:19
    71%

    19And as for my flock, they eat what you have trodden with your feet; and they drink what you have fouled with your feet.

  • Jer 12:10
    71%

    10Many shepherds have destroyed My vineyard, they have trampled My portion underfoot; they have made My pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.

  • Job 24:1
    71%

    1Why, since times are not hidden from the Almighty, do those who know Him not see His days?

  • Ps 83:12
    71%

    12Who said, Let us take for ourselves the houses of God in possession.

  • Isa 5:23
    71%

    23Who justify the wicked for a reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!

  • Ps 79:7
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    7For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling place.

  • Job 12:20
    71%

    20He removes the speech of the trusted, and takes away the understanding of the aged.

  • Amos 6:3
    71%

    3You who put far away the evil day, and bring near the seat of violence;

  • Gen 34:28
    71%

    28They took their sheep, their oxen, and their donkeys, and what was in the city and what was in the field.

  • Ezek 34:3
    71%

    3You eat the fat, and clothe yourselves with the wool, you kill them that are fed: but you do not feed the flock.

  • Isa 17:14
    71%

    14And behold, at eveningtide trouble; and before the morning he is not. This is the portion of those who spoil us, and the lot of those who rob us.

  • Prov 1:19
    71%

    19So are the ways of everyone who is greedy for gain; it takes away the life of its owners.

  • Job 20:19
    70%

    19Because he has oppressed and has forsaken the poor; because he has violently taken away a house he did not build;

  • Job 30:5
    70%

    5They were driven out from among men, they cried after them as after a thief;

  • Obad 1:5
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    5If thieves came to you, if robbers by night—oh, how you are cut off!—would they not have stolen till they had enough? If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave some grapes?

  • Ezek 22:29
    70%

    29The people of the land have used oppression, and committed robbery, and have wronged the poor and needy: yes, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.

  • Job 6:27
    70%

    27Yes, you overwhelm the fatherless, and you dig a pit for your friend.

  • Mic 7:3
    70%

    3That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asks, and the judge asks for a reward; and the great man utters his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.

  • 1 Sam 8:14
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    14And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your olive groves, even the best of them, and give them to his servants.

  • Job 24:16
    70%

    16In the dark they break into houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime; they do not know the light.

  • Deut 27:17
    70%

    17Cursed be he who removes his neighbor's landmark. And all the people shall say, Amen.

  • Jer 10:21
    70%

    21For the pastors have become brutish, and have not sought the LORD: therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall be scattered.

  • Jer 5:28
    70%

    28They have grown fat, they shine: yes, they surpass the deeds of the wicked: they do not judge the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy they do not judge.

  • Prov 21:7
    70%

    7The robbery of the wicked will destroy them, because they refuse to do justice.