Proverbs 22:29
If you see someone skilled in what they do, they'll work for kings and not for ordinary people.
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28Don't move ancient boundary markers that your forefathers put in place.
Cross References
Genesis 41:46Joseph was thirty when he started working for Pharaoh, king of Egypt. After he had left Pharaoh, Joseph traveled on an inspection tour throughout Egypt.
1 Samuel 17:31Someone overheard what David said and reported it to Saul who sent for him.
1 Kings 10:8How happy your people must be! How happy those who work for you, who stand here every day listening to your wisdom!
1 Chronicles 4:23They were potters, inhabitants of Netaim and Gederah, who lived there and worked for the king.
Proverbs 12:24Hard work brings leadership, but laziness brings slavery.
Daniel 1:4“They are to be young men without any physical defect who are good-looking,” he said. “They must be well-educated, quick to learn, have good insight, and be well able to serve in the king's palace and be taught the literature and language of Babylon.”
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 22:29
28 Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set. 1. We are here taught not to invade another man's right, though we can find ways of doing it ever so secretly and plausibly, clandestinely and by fraud, without any open force. Let not property in general be entrenched upon, by robbing men of their liberties and privileges, or of any just ways of maintaining them. Let not the property of particular persons be encroached upon. The land-marks, or meer-stones, are standing witnesses to every man's right;… Read the whole commentary →