Proverbs 23:10
Remove not the ancient landmarks; 1 And enter not upon the possession of the fatherless: 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
In Context
9Say nothing in the ears of a fool, 1 Lest at any time he sneer at thy wise words. 1
11For the Lord is their redeemer; 1 He is mighty, and will plead their cause with thee. 1
Cross References
Deuteronomy 27:17Cursed is he that removes his neighbor’s landmarks: and all the people shall say, So be it.
Job 22:9But thou hast sent widows away empty, 1 And hast afflicted orphans. 1
Job 24:9They have snatched the fatherless from the breast, 1 And have afflicted the outcast. 1
Psalms 94:6Come, let us worship and fall down before him; 1 And weep before the Lord that made us. 1
Jeremiah 7:5For if ye thoroughly correct your ways and your practices, and do indeed execute judgment between a man and his neighbor;
Jeremiah 22:3thus saith the Lord; Execute ye judgment and justice, and rescue the spoiled out of the hand of him that wrongs him: and oppress not the stranger, and orphan, and widow, and sin not, 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 →