Proverbs 22:29
It is fit that an observant man and one diligent in his business should attend on kings, and not attend on slothful men.
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
In Context
28Remove not the old + 22:28 Gr. eternal. landmarks, which your fathers placed.
Cross References
Genesis 41:46And Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharao, king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharao, and went through all the land of Egypt.
1 Samuel 17:31And the Words which David spoke were heard and were reported + 17:31 Gr. behind Saul. to Saul. And he took him to himself.
1 Kings 10:8Blessed are your wives, blessed are these your servants who stand before you continually, who hear all your wisdom.
1 Chronicles 4:23These are the potters who lived in Ataim and Gadira with the king: they grew strong in his kingdom, and lived there.
Proverbs 12:24The hand of chosen men shall easily obtain rule; but the deceitful shall be for a prey.
Daniel 1:4young men in whom was no blemish, and beautiful in appearance, and skilled in all wisdom, and possessing knowledge, and acquainted with prudence, and who had ability to stand in the house before the king, and the king gave commandment to teach them the learning 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 →