Proverbs 22:29
Do you see a man skilled in his work? 2 He will serve kings. 2 He won’t serve obscure men.
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In Context
28Don’t move the ancient boundary stone, 2 which your fathers have set up. 1
Cross References
Genesis 41:46Joseph [May he add] was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt [Abode of slavery]. Joseph [May he add] went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt [Abode of slavery].
Proverbs 12:24The hands of the diligent ones shall rule, 2 but laziness ends in slave labor. 1
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 →