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Proverbs 22:28
28Do not move the ancient landmark [at the boundary of the property] Which your fathers have set.
Proverbs 22:28 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.
- New International Version (NIV)Do not move an ancient boundary stone set up by your ancestors.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Do not move the ancient landmark that your fathers have set.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Do not remove the ancient landmark Which your fathers have set.
Context of Proverbs 22:28
26Do not be among those who give pledges [involving themselves in others’ finances], Or among those who become guarantors for others’ debts. 27If you have nothing with which to pay [another’s debt when he defaults], Why should his creditor take your bed from under you? Do not move the ancient landmark [at the boundary of the property] Which your fathers have set. 29Do you see a man skillful and experienced in his work? He will stand [in honor] before kings; He will not stand before obscure men.
Read all of Proverbs 22Proverbs 22:28 word by word
אַל־תַּ֭סֵּג גְּב֣וּל עוֹלָ֑ם אֲשֶׁ֖ר עָשׂ֣וּ אֲבוֹתֶֽיךָ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Proverbs 22:28
- Proverbs 23:10Do not move the ancient landmark [at the boundary of the property] And do not go into the fields of the fatherless [to take what is theirs],
- Deuteronomy 19:14“You shall not move your neighbor’s boundary mark, which the forefathers [who first divided the territory] have set, in the land which you will inherit in the land which the Lord your God is giving you to possess.
- Deuteronomy 27:17‘Cursed is he who moves his neighbor’s boundary mark.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
- Job 24:2Some remove the landmarks; They [violently] seize and pasture flocks [appropriating land and flocks openly].
Commentaries on Proverbs 22:28
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 28Remove not the ancient landmark - Do not take the advantage, in ploughing or breaking up a field contiguous to that of thy neighbor, to set the dividing stones farther into his field that thou mayest enlarge thy own. Take not what is not thy own in any case. Let all ancient divisions, and the usages connected with them, be held sacred. Bring in no new dogmas, nor rites, nor ceremonies, into religion, or the worship of God, that are not clearly laid down…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 28A protest against the grasping covetousness Isaiah 5:8 which is regardless of the rights of the poor upon whose inheritance men encroach (compare the margin reference). The not uncommon reference of the words to the “landmarks” of thought or custom, however, natural and legitimate, is foreign to the mind of the writer.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 28Verse 28 We are taught not to trespass on another man's right. And it is hard to find a truly industrious man. Such a man will rise. Seest thou a man diligent in the business of religion? He is likely to excel. Let us then be diligent in God's work.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 28Saying 4: In ancient times, stones marked property boundaries. Moving these markers was a serious offense (see also Proverbs 23:10; Deuteronomy 19:14).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2828. (Compare Pr 23:10). Do not entrench on others (De 19:14; 27:17).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Proverbs 22
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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