Proverbs 22:28

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

26Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts. 27If thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee? Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set. 29Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men.

Proverbs 22:28 word by word

אַל־תַּ֭סֵּג גְּב֣וּל עוֹלָ֑ם אֲשֶׁ֖ר עָשׂ֣וּ אֲבוֹתֶֽיךָ׃Read the interlinear

• Removeנָסַגnâsag · to removeH5253
• not the ancientעוֹלָם‛ôlâm ‛ôlâm · forever: antiquityH5769
• landmarkגְּבוּלgebûl gebûl · border: boundaryH1366
• which thy fathersאָב'âb · fatherH1
• have setעָשָׂה‛âώâh · to makeH6213

Cross-references for Proverbs 22:28

• Proverbs 23:10Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
• Deuteronomy 19:14Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour’s landmark, which they of old time have set in thine inheritance, which thou shalt inherit in the land that Yhwh thy God giveth thee to possess it.
• Deuteronomy 27:17Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour’s landmark. And all the people shall say, Amen.
• Job 24:2Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof.

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