Proverbs 23:10
8 The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words.
9 Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.
Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
11 For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with thee.
12 Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the 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
And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.
Read in contextProverbs 22:28
Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.
Read in contextJeremiah 22:3
Thus saith the LORD; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 27:17
Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour’s landmark. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Read in contextJames 1:27
Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
Read in contextJob 24:2–3
Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 19:14
Thou 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 the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it.
Read in contextJob 22:9
Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
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