Proverbs 23:10
Remove not the ancient landmark; And enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
ASV Byzantine Text
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 that removeth his neighbor’s landmark. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Job 22:9Thou hast sent widows away empty, And the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
Job 24:9There are that pluck the fatherless from the breast, And take a pledge of the poor;
Psalms 94:6They slay 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 saith Jehovah: Execute ye justice and righteousness, and deliver him that 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 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 →