Proverbs 23:10
Remove not the ancient landmark, And enter not into the fields of the fatherless!
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
In Context
9Speak not in the ears of a fool; For he will despise the wisdom of thy words.
11For their avenger is mighty; He will maintain their cause against thee.
Cross References
Job 22:9Thou hast sent widows away empty, And broken the arms of the fatherless.
Job 24:9The fatherless are torn from the breast, And the garment of the needy is taken for a pledge.
Psalms 94:6They slay the widow, and the stranger, And murder the fatherless;
Jeremiah 7:5Yet if ye will thoroughly amend your ways and your doings, And dispense justice between man and man,
Jeremiah 22:3Thus saith Jehovah: Do justice and righteousness; Deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor; To the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow Do no wrong, do no violence, 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 →