Proverbs 22:28
Don’t move the ancient boundary stone which your fathers have set up.
World English Bible British
In The King James Version
Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.
In Context
27If you don’t have means to pay, why should he take away your bed from under you?
29Do you see a man skilled in his work? He will serve kings. He won’t serve obscure men.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 19:14You shall not remove your neighbour’s landmark, which they of old time have set, in your inheritance which you shall inherit, in the land that the LORD your God gives you to possess.
Job 24:2There are people who remove the landmarks. They violently take away flocks, and feed them.
Proverbs 24:15Don’t lay in wait, wicked man, against the habitation of the righteous. Don’t destroy his resting place;
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 →