Job 24:2
There are people who remove the landmarks. They violently take away flocks, and feed them.
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Referenced Verses
- Deut 19:14 : 14 You shall not remove your neighbor's landmark, which they of old time have set, in your inheritance which you shall inherit, in the land that Yahweh your God gives you to possess it.
- Deut 27:17 : 17 Cursed be he who removes his neighbor's landmark. All the people shall say, Amen.
- Prov 23:10 : 10 Don't move the ancient boundary stone. Don't encroach on the fields of the fatherless:
- Prov 22:28 : 28 Don't move the ancient boundary stone, Which your fathers have set up.
- Hos 5:10 : 10 The princes of Judah are like those who remove a landmark. I will pour out my wrath on them like water.
- Job 1:15 : 15 and the Sabeans attacked, and took them away. Yes, 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, there came also another, and said, "The Chaldeans made three bands, and swept down on the camels, and have taken 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 eats up, And take it even out of the thorns; The snare gapes for their substance.
Similar Verses (AI)
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- Job 24:3-64 verses84%
3 They drive away the donkey of the fatherless, And they take the widow's ox for a pledge.
4 They turn the needy out of the way. The poor of the earth all hide themselves.
5 Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, They go forth to their work, seeking diligently for food; The wilderness yields them bread for their children.
6 They cut their provender in the field. They glean the vineyard of the wicked.
- Job 24:9-113 verses79%
9 There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, And take a pledge of the poor,
10 So that they go around naked without clothing. Being hungry, they carry the sheaves.
11 They make oil within the walls of these men. They tread wine presses, and suffer thirst.
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2 They covet fields, and seize them; And houses, and take them away: And they oppress a man and his house, Even a man and his heritage.
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10 Don't move the ancient boundary stone. Don't encroach on the fields of the fatherless:
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2 to turn aside the needy from justice, and to rob the poor of my people of their right, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!
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28 Don't move the ancient boundary stone, Which your fathers have set up.
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4 In that day they will take up a parable against you, And lament with a doleful lamentation, saying, 'We are utterly ruined! My people's possession is divided up. Indeed he takes it from me and assigns our fields to traitors!'"
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24 He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth, And causes them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.
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5 Whose harvest the hungry eats up, And take it even out of the thorns; The snare gapes for their substance.
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6 They kill the widow and the alien, And murder the fatherless.
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5 Their buyers slaughter them, and go unpunished. Those who sell them say, 'Blessed be Yahweh, for I am rich;' and their own shepherds don't pity them.
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4 Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy, And cause the poor of the land to fail,
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17 Then the lambs will graze as in their pasture, And strangers will eat the ruins of the rich.
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12 to take the spoil and to take the prey; to turn your hand against the waste places that are [now] inhabited, and against the people who are gathered out of the nations, who have gotten cattle and goods, who dwell in the middle of the earth.
- Prov 4:16-172 verses71%
16 For they don't sleep, unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.
17 For they eat the bread of wickedness, And drink the wine of violence.
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14 You shall not remove your neighbor's landmark, which they of old time have set, in your inheritance which you shall inherit, in the land that Yahweh your God gives you to possess it.
- Jer 25:36-372 verses71%
36 A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and the wailing of the principal of the flock! for Yahweh lays waste their pasture.
37 The peaceable folds are brought to silence because of the fierce anger of Yahweh.
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23 For Yahweh will plead their case, And plunder the life of those who plunder them.
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31 Your ox shall be slain before your eyes, and you shall not eat of it: your donkey shall be violently taken away from before your face, and shall not be restored to you: your sheep shall be given to your enemies, and you shall have none to save you.
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19 As for my sheep, they eat that which you have trodden with your feet, and they drink that which you have fouled with your feet.
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10 Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.
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1 "Why aren't times laid up by the Almighty? Why don't those who know him see his days?
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12 Who said, "Let us take possession Of God's pasturelands."
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23 Who acquit the guilty for a bribe, But deny justice for the innocent!
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7 For they have devoured Jacob, And destroyed his homeland.
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20 He removes the speech of those who are trusted, And takes away the understanding of the elders.
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3 Those who put far away the evil day, And cause the seat of violence to come near;
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28 They took their flocks, their herds, their donkeys, that which was in the city, that which was in the field;
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3 You eat the fat, and you clothe you with the wool, you kill the fatlings; but you don't feed the sheep.
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14 At evening, behold, terror; [and] before the morning they are no more. This is the portion of those who despoil us, and the lot of those who rob us.
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19 So are the ways of everyone who is greedy for gain. It takes away the life of its owners.
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19 For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. He has violently taken away a house, and he shall not build it up.
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5 They are driven forth from the midst of men; They cry after them as after a thief;
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5 If thieves came to you, if robbers by night-- oh, what disaster awaits you--wouldn't they only steal until they had enough? If grape pickers came to you, wouldn't they leave some gleaning grapes?
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29 The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery; yes, they have vexed the poor and needy, and have oppressed the foreigner wrongfully.
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27 Yes, you would even cast lots for the fatherless, And make merchandise of your friend.
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3 Their hands are on that which is evil to do it diligently. The ruler and judge ask for a bribe; And the powerful man dictates the evil desire of his soul. Thus they conspire together.
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14 He will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your olive groves, even the best of them, and give them to his servants.
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16 In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They don't know the light.
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17 Cursed be he who removes his neighbor's landmark. All the people shall say, Amen.
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21 For the shepherds are become brutish, and have not inquired of Yahweh: therefore they have not prospered, and all their flocks are scattered.
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28 They are grew fat, they shine: yes, they overpass in deeds of wickedness; they don't plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and the right of the needy they don't judge.
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7 The violence of the wicked will drive them away, Because they refuse to do what is right.