Proverbs 23:10
Don't move ancient boundary markers, and don't encroach on fields belonging to orphans,
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
In Context
9Don't talk to stupid people because they'll ridicule your wise words.
11for their Protector is powerful and he will plead their case against you.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 27:17“A curse on anyone who moves their neighbor's boundary stone!” Everyone says “Amen!”
Job 22:9You have sent widows away empty-handed; you have crushed the outstretched arms of orphans, begging for help.
Job 24:9Fatherless children are snatched from their mother's breasts, taking the babies of the poor as security for a debt.
Psalms 94:6They kill widows and foreigners; they murder orphans.
Jeremiah 7:5If you sincerely change your ways and do what's right, if you treat each other fairly,
Jeremiah 22:3This is what the Lord says: Do what is fair and right. Protect those who are being unjustly treated by corrupt people. Don't do anything wrong to foreigners, orphans, or the widows. Don't use violence against them. Don't kill innocent people.
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 →