Proverbs 23:10
Touch not the bounds of little ones: and enter not into the field of the fatherless:
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 ears of fools: because they will despise the instruction of thy speech.
11For their near kinsman is strong: and he will judge their cause against thee.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 27:17Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour's landmarks: and all the people shall say: Amen.
Job 22:9Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless thou hast broken in pieces.
Job 24:9They have violently robbed the fatherless, and stripped the poor common people.
Psalms 94:6They have slain the widow and the stranger: and they have murdered the fatherless.
Jeremiah 7:5For if you will order well your ways, and your doings: if you will execute judgement between a man and his neighbor,
Jeremiah 22:3Thus saith the Lord: Execute judgement and justice, and deliver him that is oppressed out of the hand of the oppressor: and afflict not the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, nor oppress them unjustly: and shed not innocent blood 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 →