Proverbs 23:10
Remove not the old landmark; 1 And enter not into the fields of the fatherless: 1
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In The King James Version
Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
In Context
9Speak not in the ears of a fool: 1 For he will despise the wisdom of thy words. 1
11For their Redeemer is mighty; 1 He shall plead their cause with thee. 1
Cross References
Deuteronomy 27:17Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour’s landmark. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Job 22:9Thou hast sent widows away empty, 1 And the arms of the fatherless have been broken. 1
Job 24:9They pluck the fatherless from the breast, 1 And take a pledge of the poor. 1
Psalms 94:6They slay the widow and the stranger, 1 And murder the fatherless. 1
Jeremiah 7:5For if you throughly amend your ways and your doings; if you throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour;
Jeremiah 22:3Thus saith the Lord; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor; and do no wrong, do no violence, to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither 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 →