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Proverbs 22:28
284. Do not move any stone that shows the border of your land. Your ancestors put it there to stop arguments.
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
263. Do not promise to pay someone else's debt. 27If you cannot pay, they will take away your bed, even while you are sleeping on it! 4. Do not move any stone that shows the border of your land. Your ancestors put it there to stop arguments. 295. A worker with special skills may work for a king. He will no longer have to work for ordinary people.
Read all of Proverbs 22Proverbs 22:28 word by word
אַל־תַּ֭סֵּג גְּב֣וּל עוֹלָ֑ם אֲשֶׁ֖ר עָשׂ֣וּ אֲבוֹתֶֽיךָ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Proverbs 22:28
- Proverbs 23:1010. Never move a stone that has always shown the border of someone's land. Do not take for yourself the fields of people who have no family to help them.
- Deuteronomy 19:14When you go to live in the land that the Lord your God is giving to you, each family will receive their piece of land. You must never move the stones that show the edge of your neighbour's land. It has always belonged to them.
- Deuteronomy 27:17‘God will curse anyone who moves the stones at the edge of his neighbour's land.’ Then all the people will say, ‘Yes, we agree!’
- Job 24:2Wicked men move the stones that show the edge of their neighbour's land. They take their neighbour's land and his sheep for themselves.
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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