Proverbs 22:28
Don't move ancient boundary markers that your forefathers put in place.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.
In Context
27for if you can't pay, why should your bed be taken away from beneath you?
29If you see someone skilled in what they do, they'll work for kings and not for ordinary people.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 19:14Don't move your neighbor's boundary marker. It was placed there by your ancestors to mark the land allotment you will receive in the country that the Lord your God is giving you to own.
Job 24:2The wicked move boundary stones; they seize other people's flocks and move them to their own pastures.
Proverbs 24:15Don't be like a criminal waiting to ambush the home of good people; don't attack the place where they live.
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 →