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Proverbs 23:10
10Do not move an ancient boundary stone or encroach on the fields of the fatherless,
Proverbs 23:10 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
- English Standard Version (ESV)Do not move an ancient landmark or enter the fields of the fatherless,
- New King James Version (NKJV)Do not remove the ancient landmark, Nor enter the fields of the fatherless;
- New Living Translation (NLT)Don’t cheat your neighbor by moving the ancient boundary markers; don’t take the land of defenseless orphans.
Context of Proverbs 23:10
8You will vomit up the little you have eaten and will have wasted your compliments. 9Do not speak to fools, for they will scorn your prudent words. Do not move an ancient boundary stone or encroach on the fields of the fatherless, 11for their Defender is strong; he will take up their case against you. 12Apply your heart to instruction and your ears to words of knowledge.
Read all of Proverbs 23Proverbs 23:10 word by word
אַל־תַּ֭סֵּג גְּב֣וּל עוֹלָ֑ם וּבִשְׂדֵ֥י יְ֝תוֹמִ֗ים אַל־תָּבֹֽא׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Proverbs 23:10
- Proverbs 22:28Do not move an ancient boundary stone set up by your ancestors.
- 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.
- Job 6:27You would even cast lots for the fatherless and barter away your friend.
- Job 22:9And you sent widows away empty-handed and broke the strength of the fatherless.
- Job 24:3They drive away the orphan’s donkey and take the widow’s ox in pledge.
- Job 31:21if I have raised my hand against the fatherless, knowing that I had influence in court,
- Psalms 94:6They slay the widow and the foreigner; they murder the fatherless.
- Jeremiah 7:5If you really change your ways and your actions and deal with each other justly,
- Jeremiah 22:3This is what the Lord says: Do what is just and right. Rescue from the hand of the oppressor the one who has been robbed. Do no wrong or violence to the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place.
- Zechariah 7:10Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the foreigner or the poor. Do not plot evil against each other.’
- Malachi 3:5“So I will come to put you on trial. I will be quick to testify against sorcerers, adulterers and perjurers, against those who defraud laborers of their wages, who oppress the widows and the fatherless, and deprive the foreigners among you of justice, but do not fear me,” says the Lord Almighty.
- James 1:27Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
Commentaries on Proverbs 23:10
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 10Remove not the old landmark - See Proverbs 22:28; (note). Enter not into the fields of the fatherless - Take nothing that belongs to an orphan. The heaviest curse of God will fall upon them that do so.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 10-11Verses 10-11 The fatherless are taken under God's special protection. He is their Redeemer, who will take their part; and he is mighty, almighty.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 10-11Saying 10: Wise people avoid unfair business practices and illegitimate gains (see Proverbs 22:28), knowing that the Lord will judge wrongdoing. Redeemer: The New Living Translation is likely correct in capitalizing the word Redeemer and identifying it with God, although it might refer to a human redeemer.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 10-1110-11. (Compare Pr 22:22, 23).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Proverbs 23
- 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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