2Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour's landmark. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's landmark, which they of old time have set in thine inheritance, which thou shalt inherit in the land that the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it.
Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.
The princes of Judah were like them that remove the bound: therefore I will pour out my wrath upon them like water.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-12)Job’s friends had been very positive in it that they should soon see the fall of wicked people, how much soever they might prosper for a while. By no means, says Job; though times are not hidden from the Almighty , yet those that know him do not presently see his day , Job 24:1. 1. He takes it for granted that times are not hidden from the Almighty; past times are not hidden from his judgment (Ecc…
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