Proverbs 22:28

Do not steal some of your neighbors’ land by removing the boundary lines/markers that your ancestors placed/set.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.

In Context

27because if you cannot pay it back, people will surely [RHQ] come and take away everything you own, even your bed.

29Know/Learn [RHQ] this about those who do their work very skillfully: They will quit working for ordinary people and will start working for kings because the kings will want people like that to work for them.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 19:14“ When you are living in the land that Yahweh our God is giving to you, do not move the markers of your neighbors’ property boundaries which were placed there long ago.”

Job 24:2Some evil people remove the markers of boundaries of other people’s land, in order to steal their land; they seize/steal other people’s sheep and put them in their own pastures.

Proverbs 24:15Do not be like wicked people who hide and wait to break into the houses of righteous/good people and rob/steal things.

Matthew Henry on Proverbs 22:27-28

26 Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts. 27 If thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee? We have here, as often before, a caution against suretiship, as a thing both imprudent and unjust. 1. We must not associate ourselves, nor contract an intimacy, with men of broken fortunes, and reputations, who need and will urge their friends to be bound for them, that they may cheat their neighbours to feed their lusts, and by keeping up a little… Read the whole commentary →

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