John Trapp on Job 24:2

Verſe 2. Some remove the Land marks] Here he inſtanceth in all ſorts of wicked perſons, with their ſeculi laetitia, impunita nequitia: they go point blank againſt Gods Commandments; they pleaſe not him, and are contrary to all men; and yet who but they, ſo long as it will laſt? Some remove (or touch) the Landmarks, which the very Heathens held to be ſacred, and not once to be touched.Inter Ethnicor Terminus numinis lo.o habitua eſt. Numa King of Romans made a Law, that if any hid or removed a Land-mark, he ſhould be ſlain by the next that met him, as a ſacrilegious perſon, or publick Peſt. Gods Law curſeth ſuch an Offendour, Deut. 27. and the Civil Lawes paſſe ſentence of death upon him. The Chaldee Paraphraſt and old Rabbins underſtand this and the following Offences, of the old world, full of rapacity and impiety. But are there not the like and worſe evils found alſo amongſt us, upon whom the ends of the world are come, in theſe laſt and worſt times, as Bernard fitly yoaketh them? Read the Catalogue and compare.In his ultimis et peſſimis. temporibus. Bern. Reckon alſo, that you then read or hear this Chapter aright, when applying each paſſage to your ſelves, you learn to waſh your hands in innocency, or at leaſt in teares for theſe abominations: As alſo, if ye be not offended at the proſperity of thoſe who fall into all or but ſome of theſe wickedneſſes, ſith the time is at hand when account muſt be given of all things done in the body, whether good or evil.

They violently take away flocks and feed thereon] Though they eat that on earth which they ſhall digeſt in hell. Or, and feed them; viz. openly and impudently, with as much inſolence as injuſtice; and as if they had got them by right, and not by rapine and robbery. Lavater upon the Text maketh mention of a certain Helvetian Tyrant, who violently took away the Oxen from the Plough of an honeſt Countryman, and told him that it was fit that Clownes ſhould draw the Plough themſelves, without the help of Oxen.