Proverbs 23:10
8 You will vomit up what little you have eaten and waste your pleasant words.
9 Do not speak to a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of your words.
Do not move an ancient boundary stone or encroach on the fields of the fatherless,
11 for their Redeemer is strong; He will take up their case against you.
12 Apply your heart to instruction and your ears to words of knowledge.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Do not move an ancient boundary stone or encroach on the fields of the fatherless,
- KJV
- Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
- WEB
- Don’t move the ancient boundary stone. Don’t encroach on the fields of the fatherless,
- ASV
- Remove not the ancient landmark; And enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
- DARBY
- Remove not the ancient landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
- BLB
- Do not remove a boundary of old, and do not enter into the fields of the fatherless.
- ÅB
- Flytt ikke det gamle grenseskjell, og kom ikke inn på farløses marker!
- OTB
- Flytt ikke en gammel grensestein eller treng deg inn på de farløses marker,
- B1930
- Flytt ikke det gamle grenseskjell, og kom ikke inn på farløses marker!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Zechariah 7:10
Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the foreigner or the poor. And do not plot evil in your hearts against one another.’
Read in contextProverbs 22:28
Do not move an ancient boundary stone which your fathers have placed.
Read in contextJeremiah 22:3
This is what the LORD says: Administer justice and righteousness. Rescue the victim of robbery from the hand of his oppressor. Do no wrong or violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Do not shed innocent blood in this place.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 27:17
‘Cursed is he who moves his neighbor’s boundary stone.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
Read in contextJames 1:27
Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
Read in contextJob 24:2–3
Men move boundary stones; they pasture stolen flocks.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 19:14
You must not move your neighbor’s boundary marker, which was set up by your ancestors to mark the inheritance you shall receive in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess.
Read in contextJob 22:9
You sent widows away empty-handed, and the strength of the fatherless was crushed.
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