Proverbs 23:10
Do not let the landmark of the widow be moved, and do not go into the fields of those who have no father;
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
In Context
9Say nothing in the hearing of a foolish man, for he will put no value on the wisdom of your words.
11For their saviour is strong, and he will take up their cause against you.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 27:17Cursed is he who takes his neighbour's landmark from its place. And let all the people say, So be it.
Job 22:9You have sent widows away without hearing their cause, and you have taken away the support of the child who has no father.
Job 24:9The child without a father is forced from its mother's breast, and they take the young children of the poor for debt.
Psalms 94:6They put to death the widow and the guest, they take the lives of children who have no father;
Jeremiah 7:5For if your ways and your doings are truly changed for the better; if you truly give right decisions between a man and his neighbour;
Jeremiah 22:3This is what the Lord has said: Do what is right, judging uprightly, and make free from the hands of the cruel one him whose goods have been violently taken away: do no wrong and be not violent to the man from a strange country and the child without a father and the widow, and let not those who have done no wrong be put to death in this place.
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 →