Job 24:2
Men move boundary stones; they pasture stolen flocks.
BSB
ASV
There are that remove the landmarks; They violently take away flocks, and feed them.
KJV
Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof.
Some remove the landmarks - Stones or posts were originally set up to ascertain the bounds of particular estates: and this was necessary in open countries, before hedges and fences were formed. Wicked and covetous men often removed the landmarks or termini, and set them in on their neighbors’ ground, that, by contracting their boundaries, they might enlarge their own. The law of Moses denounces curses on those who remove their neighbors’ landmarks. See Deu 19:14; Deu 27:17, and the note on the former place, where the subject is considered at large.
Forging or destroying deeds is now a crime equivalent to this. They dispossess them of their personal estates, under colour of justice. They violently take away flocks, pretending they are forfeited, and feed thereof; as the rich man took the poor man's ewe lamb, 2 Sam. xii.
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Proverbs 22:28Do not move an ancient boundary stone which your fathers have placed.
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‘Cursed is he who moves his neighbor’s boundary stone.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
Reached by 4 independent paths from here.
You must not move your neighbor’s boundary marker, which was set up by your ancestors to mark the inheritance you shall receive in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to…
Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
Do not move an ancient boundary stone or encroach on the fields of the fatherless,
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Proverbs 23:10Do not move an ancient boundary stone or encroach on the fields of the fatherless,
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Do not move an ancient boundary stone which your fathers have placed.
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Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the foreigner or the poor. And do not plot evil in your hearts against one another.’
This is what the LORD says: Administer justice and righteousness. Rescue the victim of robbery from the hand of his oppressor. Do no wrong or violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow.…
Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
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Deuteronomy 19:14You must not move your neighbor’s boundary marker, which was set up by your ancestors to mark the inheritance you shall receive in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to…
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The princes of Judah are like those who move boundary stones; I will pour out My fury upon them like water.