Proverbs 23:10
Don’t move the ancient boundary stone. Don’t encroach on the fields of the fatherless,
World Messianic Bible British
In The King James Version
Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
In Context
9Don’t speak in the ears of a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of your words.
11for their Defender is strong. He will plead their case against you.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 27:17‘Cursed is he who removes his neighbour’s landmark.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
Job 22:9You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
Job 24:9There are those who pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor,
Psalms 94:6They kill the widow and the alien, and murder the fatherless.
Jeremiah 7:5For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings, if you thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbour;
Jeremiah 22:3The LORD says: “Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor. Do no wrong. Do no violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Don’t shed innocent blood in this place.
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 →