Proverbs 22:28
Do not cross beyond the ancient limits that your fathers have set.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.
In Context
Cross References
Deuteronomy 19:14You shall not take up or move the landmark of your neighbor, which those before you have placed, in your possession that the Lord your God will give to you, in the land you will receive to possess.
Job 24:2Some have crossed the boundaries, plundered the flocks, and given them pasture.
Proverbs 24:15Do not lie in wait, and do not seek impiety in the house of the just, nor spoil his rest.
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 →