Matthew Poole and continuators on Job 24:2
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Job24:2
2. Some remove the Land-marks ; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof .
Or, they (i. e. the wicked, of whom he here treats) touch (to wit, in an unlawful manner, and with evil design, as this word is oft used, as Gen. 26. 11, 29. Ruth 2. 9. so as to invade, or possess, or remove,) the Land-marks, by which mens Lands are discerned, and their proprieties secured, that so they may inlarge their own border by diminishing their Neighbours. Which is so horrid an Act of Injustice, that it hath not only been severely forbidden by God, Deut. 19. 14. & 27. 17. Prov. 22. 28. & 23. 10. but also declared execrable by the Heathens; among whom it was permitted to any man to kill him that did it.
Or, feed them. They do not hide or kill them, but openly feed them, either in their oppressed Neighbours ground, which, by taking away the Land-marks, they have made their own, or in their own Pastures without any remorse, or shame, or fear of punishment, either from God or men.
Marginal references: Or, feed them.
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