Proverbs 23:10
Remooue not the ancient boundes, and enter not into the fieldes of the fatherlesse.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
In Context
9Speake not in the eares of a foole: for hee will despise the wisdome of thy wordes.
11For he that redeemeth them, is mightie: he will defend their cause against thee.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 27:17Cursed be he that remoueth his neighbors marke: And all the people shall say: So be it.
Job 22:9Thou hast cast out widowes emptie, and the armes of the fatherles were broken.
Job 24:9They plucke the fatherles from the breast, and take the pledge of the poore.
Psalms 94:6They slay the widowe and the stranger, and murder the fatherlesse.
Jeremiah 7:5For if you amende and redresse your waies and your woorkes: if you execute iudgement betweene a man and his neighbour,
Jeremiah 22:3Thus saith the Lord, Execute ye iudgement and righteousnes, and deliuer the oppressed from the hande of the oppressor, and vexe not the stranger, the fatherlesse, nor the widowe: doe no violence, nor sheade 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 →