Proverbs 22:28
Do not remove a border of ancient times, || That your fathers have made.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.
In Context
27If you have nothing to pay, || Why does he take your bed from under you?
Cross References
Deuteronomy 19:14You do not remove a border of your neighbor, which they of former times have made, in your inheritance, which you inherit in the land which your God YHWH is giving to you to possess it.
Job 24:2They reach the borders, || They have taken a drove away violently, || Indeed, they do evil.
Proverbs 24:15Do not lay wait, O wicked one, || At the habitation of the righteous. Do not spoil his resting place.
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 →