Proverbs 22:28
Do not remove the ancient boundary stone 1 that your fathers have set. 1
Unlocked Literal Bible
In The King James Version
Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.
In Context
27If you lack the means to pay, 1 what could stop someone from taking away your bed from under you? 1
Cross References
Deuteronomy 19:14You must not remove your neighbor's landmark that they set in place a long time ago, in your inheritance that you will inherit, in the land that Yahweh your God is giving you to possess.
Job 24:2There are wicked people who remove boundary markers; 1 there are wicked people who take away flocks by force and put them in their own pastures. 1
Proverbs 24:15Do not lie in wait like the wicked person 1 who attacks the house of the righteous person. 1 Do not destroy his home! 1
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 →