Proverbs 23:10
Do not steal someone’s property by removing a boundary marker that has been there for a long time, and do not take for yourself the land that belongs to orphans,
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
In Context
Cross References
Deuteronomy 27:17‘Yahweh will curse anyone who removes someone else’s markers of property boundaries.’ And all the people must reply, ‘◄Amen/We want that to happen►.’
Job 22:9When widows came to you for help, you must have sent them away without giving them anything, and you must have oppressed orphans.
Job 24:9Some evil men snatch infants away from their widowed mothers [SYN], and they say ‘I will return your babies to you when you repay the money that I lent to you.’
Psalms 94:6They murder widows and orphans and people from other countries who think it is safe to live in our land.
Jeremiah 7:5I will act mercifully to you only if you change your behavior and stop doing evil things, and if you start to act fairly/justly toward others,
Jeremiah 22:3to what Yahweh says: “Act fairly and justly. Do what is right. Help those who have been robbed. Rescue people from those who oppress them. Stop doing evil things. Do not mistreat those who have come here from other countries, and do not mistreat orphans and widows. Stop murdering here in Jerusalem [MTY] those who ◄are innocent/have not done things that are wrong►.
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 →