Proverbs 23:10
Remove not the ancient landmark. And enter not into the fields of the fatherless,
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
In Context
9Speak not in the hearing of a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.
11for their Redeemer is strong. He will plead their cause against thee.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 27:17Cursed be he who removes his neighbor's landmark. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Job 22:9Thou have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
Job 24:9There are [men] who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor,
Psalms 94:6They kill the widow and the sojourner, and murder the fatherless.
Jeremiah 7:5For if ye thoroughly amend your ways and your doings, if ye thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor,
Jeremiah 22:3Thus says LORD: Execute ye justice and righteousness. And deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor. And do no wrong. Do no violence to the sojourner, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in t
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 23:10
9 Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words. We are here directed not to cast pearls before swine ( Matt. vii. 6 ) and not to expose things sacred to the contempt and ridicule of profane scoffers. It is our duty to take all fit occasions to speak of divine things; but, 1. There are some that will make a jest of every thing, though it be ever so prudently and pertinently spoken, that will not only despise a wise man's words, but despise even the wisdom of them, that in them which… Read the whole commentary →