Proverbs 22:28
Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.
In Context
27If thou have not wherewith to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?
Cross References
Deuteronomy 19:14Thou shall not remove thy neighbor's landmark, which they of old time have set, in thine inheritance which thou shall inherit, in the land that LORD thy God gives thee to possess it.
Job 24:2There are [men] who remove the landmarks. They take away flocks violently, and feed them.
Proverbs 24:15Lay not in wait, O wicked man, against the habitation of the righteous. Do not destroy his resting place.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 22:27-28
26 Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts. 27 If thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee? We have here, as often before, a caution against suretiship, as a thing both imprudent and unjust. 1. We must not associate ourselves, nor contract an intimacy, with men of broken fortunes, and reputations, who need and will urge their friends to be bound for them, that they may cheat their neighbours to feed their lusts, and by keeping up a little… Read the whole commentary →