Proverbs 22:28
Remove not the ancient landmark which thy fathers have set.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.
In Context
27if thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?
Cross References
Deuteronomy 19:14Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's landmark, which they of old time have fixed in thine inheritance, which thou shalt inherit in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee to possess.
Job 24:2They remove the landmarks; they violently take away the flocks and pasture them;
Proverbs 24:15Lay not wait, O wicked [man], against the dwelling of the righteous; lay not waste 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 →