Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof.
The verse belongs to the extended dialogue of Job 8-27 in which Job's friends bring repeated accusations against him and he answers them, and it stands within his final reply that is still underway at Job 27 after his friends have ceased troubling him. It describes wicked oppressors who remove boundary landmarks and violently take away flocks to feed themselves. Job lists this conduct together with driving away the donkey of the fatherless, taking the widow's ox for a pledge, and turning the needy out of the way as the way of life of the wicked.
He sets that life of the wicked in contrast with his own life in order to justify himself and vindicate his own righteousness. He insists he had not done such things because he delivered the poor that cried and the fatherless, caused the widow's heart to sing for joy, was eyes to the blind and feet to the lame, and was a father to the poor.
The verse belongs to the extended dialogue of Job 8-27 in which Job's friends bring repeated accusations against him and he answers them, and it stands within his final reply that is still underway at Job 27 after his friends have ceased troubling him. It describes wicked oppressors who remove boundary landmarks and violently take away flocks to feed themselves. Job lists this conduct together with driving away the donkey of the fatherless, taking the widow's ox for a pledge, and turning the needy out of the way as the way of life of the wicked.
He sets that life of the wicked in contrast with his own life in order to justify himself and vindicate his own righteousness. He insists he had not done such things because he delivered the poor that cried and the fatherless, caused the widow's heart to sing for joy, was eyes to the blind and feet to the lame, and was a father to the poor.