Proverbs 23:10
Do not remove a border of ancient times, || And do not enter into fields of the fatherless,
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
In Context
9Do not speak in the ears of a fool, || For he treads on the wisdom of your words.
11For their Redeemer [is] strong, || He pleads their cause with you.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 27:17“Cursed [is] he who is removing his neighbor’s border.” And all the people have said, “Amen.”
Job 22:9You have sent widows away empty, || And the arms of the fatherless are bruised.
Job 24:9They take away violently || The orphan from the breast, || And they lay a pledge on the poor.
Psalms 94:6They slay widow and sojourner, || And they murder fatherless ones.
Jeremiah 7:5For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings, || If you thoroughly do judgment || Between a man and his neighbor,
Jeremiah 22:3Thus said YHWH: “Do judgment and righteousness, || And deliver the plundered from the hand of the oppressor, || And sojourner, orphan, and widow, you do not oppress nor wrong, || And innocent blood you do not shed 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 →