Proverbs 22:29
Do you see a man skilled in his work? He will serve kings. He won’t serve obscure men.
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In Context
28Don’t move the ancient boundary stone which your fathers have set up.
Cross References
Genesis 41:46Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt.
1 Samuel 17:31When the words were heard which David spoke, they rehearsed them before Saul; and he sent for him.
1 Kings 10:8Happy are your men, happy are these your servants who stand continually before you, who hear your wisdom.
1 Chronicles 4:23These were the potters, and the inhabitants of Netaim and Gederah; they lived there with the king for his work.
Proverbs 12:24The hands of the diligent ones shall rule, but laziness ends in slave labour.
Daniel 1:4youths in whom was no defect, but well-favoured, skilful in all wisdom, endowed with knowledge, understanding science, and who had the ability to stand in the king’s palace; and that he should teach them the learning and the language of the Chaldeans.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 22:29
28 Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set. 1. We are here taught not to invade another man's right, though we can find ways of doing it ever so secretly and plausibly, clandestinely and by fraud, without any open force. Let not property in general be entrenched upon, by robbing men of their liberties and privileges, or of any just ways of maintaining them. Let not the property of particular persons be encroached upon. The land-marks, or meer-stones, are standing witnesses to every man's right;… Read the whole commentary →