Proverbs 22:29
Have you seen a man speedy in his business? He stations himself before kings, || He does not station himself before obscure men!
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In Context
28Do not remove a border of ancient times, || That your fathers have made.
Cross References
Genesis 41:46And Joseph [is] a son of thirty years in his standing before Pharaoh king of Egypt, and Joseph goes out from the presence of Pharaoh, and passes over through all the land of Egypt;
1 Samuel 17:31And the words which David has spoken are heard, and they declare [them] before Saul, and he receives him;
1 Kings 10:8O the blessedness of your men, O the blessedness of your servants—these—who are standing before you continually, who are hearing your wisdom!
1 Chronicles 4:23They [are] the potters and inhabitants of Netaim and Gedera; they dwelt there with the king in his work.
Proverbs 12:24The hand of the diligent rules, || And slothfulness becomes tributary.
Daniel 1:4boys in whom there is no blemish, and of good appearance, and skillful in all wisdom, and possessing knowledge, and teaching thought, and who have ability to stand in the palace of the king, and to teach them the literature and language of the Chaldeans.
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 →