Proverbs 22:29
Thou seest that a diligent man in his businesse standeth before Kings, and standeth not before the base sort.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
In Context
28Thou shalt not remooue the ancient bounds which thy fathers haue made.
Cross References
Genesis 41:46And Ioseph was thirtie yeere old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt: and Ioseph departing from the presence of Pharaoh, went throughout all the land of Egypt.
1 Samuel 17:31And they that heard the wordes which Dauid spake, rehearsed them before Saul, which caused him to be brought.
1 Kings 10:8Happy are the men, happie are these thy seruants, which stande euer before thee, and heare thy wisedome.
1 Chronicles 4:23These were potters, and dwelt among plants and hedges: there they dwelt with the king for his worke.
Proverbs 12:24The hand of the diligent shall beare rule: but the idle shalbe vnder tribute.
Daniel 1:4Children in whome was no blemish, but well fauoured, and instruct in all wisedome, and well seene in knowledge, and able to vtter knowledge, and such as were able to stande in the kings palace, and whome they might teach the learning, and the tongue of the Caldeans.
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 →