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Proverbs 22:28
28Do not move an ancient boundary stone set up by your ancestors.
Proverbs 22:28 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.
- 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.
- New Living Translation (NLT)Don’t cheat your neighbor by moving the ancient boundary markers set up by previous generations.
Context of Proverbs 22:28
26Do not be one who shakes hands in pledge or puts up security for debts; 27if you lack the means to pay, your very bed will be snatched from under you. Do not move an ancient boundary stone set up by your ancestors. 29Do you see someone skilled in their work? They will serve before kings; they will not serve before officials of low rank.
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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 an ancient boundary stone or encroach on the fields of the fatherless,
- Deuteronomy 19:14Do not move your neighbor’s boundary stone set up by your predecessors in the inheritance you receive in the land the Lord your God is giving you to possess.
- Deuteronomy 27:17“Cursed is anyone who moves their neighbor’s boundary stone.” Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”
- Job 24:2There are those who move boundary stones; they pasture flocks they have stolen.
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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