Proverbs 23:10
Remove not the ancient landmark, and into the fields of the fatherless must thou not enter;
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
In Context
9Speak not before the ears of a fool; for he will despise the intelligence of thy words.
11For their redeemer is strong; he will indeed plead their cause with thee.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 27:17Cursed be he that removeth the landmark of his neighbor; and all the people shall say, Amen.
Job 22:9Widows hast thou sent away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
Job 24:9The others pluck from the breast the fatherless, and the garment of the poor they take in pledge.
Psalms 94:6The widow and the stranger they slay, and the fatherless they murder.
Jeremiah 7:5For if ye thoroughly amend your ways and your deeds; if ye thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor;
Jeremiah 22:3Thus hath said the Lord, Execute ye justice and righteousness, and deliver him that is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor; and the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow shall ye not oppress, and do them no violence, and shed no 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 →