Proverbs 23:10
Remove not the ancient landmarks; and enter not upon the possession of the fatherless:
Brenton Septuagint
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 ears of a fool, lest at any time he sneer at thy wise words.
11for the Lord is their redeemer; he is mighty, and will plead their cause with thee.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 27:17Cursed is he that removes his neighbour's landmarks: and all the people shall say, So be it.
Job 22:9But thou hast sent widows away empty, and hast afflicted orphans.
Job 24:9They have snatched the fatherless from the breast, and have afflicted the outcast.
Psalms 94:6Come, let us worship and fall down before him; and weep before the Lord that made us.
Jeremiah 7:5For if ye thoroughly correct your ways and your practices, and do indeed execute judgment between a man and his neighbour;
Jeremiah 22:3thus saith the Lord; Execute ye judgment and justice, and rescue the spoiled out of the hand of him that wrongs him: and oppress not the stranger, and orphan, and widow, and sin not, and shed no 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 →