Proverbs 23:10
Don’t move the ancient boundary stone. 2 Don’t encroach on the fields of the fatherless: 1
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In The King James Version
Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
In Context
9Don’t speak in the ears of a fool, 2 for he will despise the wisdom of your words. 1
11for their Defender is strong. 2 He will plead their case against you. 1
Cross References
Deuteronomy 27:17‘Cursed is he who removes his neighbor’s landmark.’ All the people shall say, ‘ Amen ·So be it·.’
Psalms 94:6They kill the widow and the alien, 2 and murder the fatherless. 1
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 →