Proverbs 23:10
Do not move an ancient boundary stone or encroach on the fields of the fatherless,
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
In Context
9Do not speak to a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of your words.
11for their Redeemer is strong; He will take up their case against you.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 27:17‘Cursed is he who moves his neighbor’s boundary stone.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
Job 22:9You sent widows away empty-handed, and the strength of the fatherless was crushed.
Job 24:9The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast; the nursing child of the poor is seized for a debt.
Psalms 94:6They kill the widow and the foreigner; they murder the fatherless.
Jeremiah 7:5For if you really correct your ways and deeds, if you act justly toward one another,
Jeremiah 22:3This is what the LORD says: Administer justice and righteousness. Rescue the victim of robbery from the hand of his oppressor. Do no wrong or violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Do not 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 →